Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza Showcases Her Collection in Latin America

Zapopan’s Museum of Art (MAZ is the Spanish acronym), in Mexico, will be hosting through early October the show "Atopía. Migración, legado y ausencia de lugar", so this is the first time ever Austrian collector Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, exhibits a group of works from her Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) collection in Latin America. The show includes artworks created by nearly twenty artists, such as Mexican Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico City, 1968) and Mario García Torres (Monclova, Mexico, 1975), Brazilian Jonathas de Andrade (Maceió,  1982), Paulo Nazareth (Governador Valadáres, 1977) and Rivane Neuenschwander (Belo Horizonte, 1967), Colombian Alex Rodríguez (Cali, 1981) and artistic duos Allora & Calzadilla -Jennifer Allora (Philadelphia, United States, 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (Havana, Cuba, 1971) who live in San Juan, Puerto Rico- and Los Carpinteros -Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés (Camagüey, Cuba, 1971) and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez (Caibarién, Cuba, 1969)-.

The opening of this display, organized by MAZ and TBA21, was attended by professional from the world of art, that is the case of Mexican Patrick Charpenel (Guadalajara, 1967), director of Jumex Collection/Foundation in Mexico, owned by entrepreneur Eugenio López Alonso, Spanish gallery owners Inés López Quesada and Sivia Ortiz, owners of Travesía Cuatro Gallery, with venues in Madrid and Guadalajara (Mexico) or the chief curator of TBA21 collection, Daniela Zyman (Vienna, 1964), among others.

TBA21 is a Vienna-based institution devoted to contemporary art, founded by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza back in 2002 produce, curate and spread contemporary art. This important collection puts together artworks created by nearly 200 artists, 22 of which are from Spanish America.

Source: ARTEINFORMADO