The Jumex is a private art museum created by Eugenio López Alonso, the sole heir to the Jumex fruit juice fortune. His aim is to promote contemporary art through the Jumex Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colecci%C3%B3n_Jumex The art displayed there is very modern. One of two exhibits I saw there was by the American artist, John Baldessari, "a conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images". Some of his works I liked, some, not so much. Here are a few pieces. Judge for yourself.
Titled: God Nose
Camel (albino) contemplating needle (large)
The other exhibit I saw was of the work of French artist, Philippe Parreno. Very unusual. Hard to describe. The principal work was a video projected on a large screen with helium inflated big fish beach toys floating between the projector and the screen producing fish shadows on the video.
You can watch a bit of video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmj9LgkiNQg
The Jumex Museum is next door to the Sumaya museum (created by Carlos Slim Helú, one of the world's wealthiest men) designed by the Mexican architect Fernando Romero. I've posted about this museum before but the building is so outlandish and the view of it is great from the Jumex I had to include the photo.
Well ... hmmmm ... I like the photo of the Sumaya museum the best :)
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