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Jumex museum collection



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Mexico City (April 2, 2011) .- The Jumex Collection meets a decade.

While the institution headed by Eugenio Lopez Alonso has not announced any formal celebration, the exhibition "Flash," which opens on April 8, brings together works by artists such as Cy Twombly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Francis Alÿs, Ernesto Neto, that gave rise to the most important private collection of contemporary art in Mexico.

The curator is Osvaldo Sanchez, who as director of the Museo Carrillo Gil, in 1999 hosted the show "33 works of Jumex Collection", which meant the public presentation of the acquis.

"Flash" brings together over fifty artists from different generations, whose work explores the nexus between art and spirituality.

"I was interested in returning to a long tradition of artistic practice that is the idea of spirituality from two topics: the intimacy and fragility," says the now director of the Museum of Modern Art (MAM), the exhibition invited to heal .