MUSEO JUMEX, EUGENIO LOPEZ' COLLECTION HOUSED IN NEW BUILDING DESIGNED BY DAVID CHIPPERFIELD OPENS IN MEXICO CITY

Museo Jumex, Eugenio Lopez' collection, designed by David Chipperfield in Mexico City

outside of Museo Jumex


Damian Ortega finishing the installation of his 'Cosmogonia Domestica' curated by Rosario Nadal


What is the Role of the Contemporary Museum?


up the stairs

'A Place in two Dimensions: A Selection from Coleccion Jumex + Fred Sandback' curated by Museo Jumex Director Patrick Charpenel

Museo Jumex director Patrick Charpenel  with Bruce Nauman on the background

Fred Sandback and Fischli and Weiss



Francis Aly's 'The Copy of the Liar'


Warho's Jackie O and Richard Prince joke


Jeff Koons and Alighero Boetti


John Baldessari's 'One is Civilized and Knows What is What'


Damian Hirst's cow head next to Jasper John's 'Corpse and Mirror' 1976

Eduardo Terrazas, Donald Judd, Fred Sandback

Eduardo Terrazas

Gabrile Orozco's pool table

Carl Andre's floor and Robert Ryman painting

a view of the top floor exhibition space, notice the marble floors

Museo Jumex's architect David Chipperfiled explaining the architecture, next to him Hans Ulrich Obrist

James Lee Byars, '1/2 an Autobiograby' curated by Museo Jumex's Chief Curator Magali Arriola and PS1's Peter Eleey, a beautiful and intelligent exhibition

James Lee Byars, 'World Flag', 1991



James Lee Byars 'A Whote Paper will Flow through the Streets'

James Lee Byars and a Dozen Facts

James Lee Byars, 'The World Question Center...'


continuing down the stairs

the terrace at Museo Jumex framing Museo Soumaya in front of it. 

Click here for a visit to Soumaya done on April 2011

'Las Ideas de Gamboa' an editorial project on Mexico's museum and curatorial pioneer Fernando Gamboa edited by Mauricio Marcin


Martin Creed's striped marble floor in the bookshop

and Stefan Bruggemann's 'All my ideas are imported, all my products are exported, all my explanations are rubbish' among other works in the parking lot in the basement in an unannounced exhibition curated by art advisor Patricia Marshall

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GUY DE COINTET 'TEMPO RUBATO' CURATED BY MAGALI ARRIOLA AT FUNDACION/COLECCION JUMEX

Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite, set and props for Iglu, 1977

exhibition view of Guy de Cointent at Jumex Collection, the display is inspired by de Cointent's labyrinthic drawings

Guy de Cointet, 'In Tacuar everyone knew him as an English man from Oaxaca',1971

Magali Arriola, curator, Jumex Collection

and the model for the new Jumex Collection building designed by David Chiperfield to open soon in Polanco next to Soumaya Museum

press release:
Guy de Cointet
Tempo Rubato

Fundación/Colección Jumex
curated by Magalí Arriola
December 3, 2012–February 24, 2013

After discussing the Italians’ skill of performing with their hands while they’re talking as if improvising on a melody, Rosa and Butch—the main characters in Guy de Cointet and Robert Wilhite’s Iglu—converse about what they understand by tempo rubato. In their exchange, the musical term that refers to the expressive and rhythmic freedom of the performer who shapes music by introducing variations to the tempo of the original score, is now a matter of performative speech. This very sense of practiced spontaneity in the production of meaning is what gives substance to Guy de Cointet’s synesthetic practice, whose associations of shapes, words, and body language manage to undermine the social values and cultural codes that administer our day-to-day lives.

The exhibition Guy de Cointet: Tempo Rubato includes a wide range of works: from the first encrypted drawings and books, to the later monologues, set designs and theatrical productions inspired by the current events of his time, mass media, and popular culture. Growing up in a military family, de Cointet had a marked fascination for the encrypted languages used during World War II, and the everyday dynamics generated around them, that he further associated with the manipulative character of the media.

Finding inspiration in such diverse territories as domestic conversations, Mexican soap operas, literary passages and pre-Columbian codices, de Cointet conceived, over the years, a series of situations in the form of graphics and performable texts that, like lost or misplaced moments, manage to escape the routine of daily life. In these situations, words generate images that become narratives without a plot. These narratives-in-the-making are deployed in space as characters activate objects, and as the identity of these objects shifts, making them acquire a life of their own that manages to unsettle and transcend the ordinary.

This exhibition, unprecedented in Mexico, represents not only an occasion for the work to travel to a territory that was familiar to the artist, but it provides viewers with the opportunity to delve into a seldom-explored terrain, one where painting, sculpture, storytelling and performance intermingle –and one that has gained new resonance, perhaps responding to the need to conceive different methods of recounting oft-told stories, stories in which art may now turn into an indispensable prop to deal with everyday life.

About Fundación/Colección Jumex
Fundación/Colección Jumex was created in 2001 to promote production, advance research, and encourage critical thinking about contemporary art at an international level. Today it has become one of the most important contemporary art collections in Latin America. Through its exhibitions and extensive grant and scholarship programs, Fundación/Colección Jumex works to generate innovative research and curatorial proposals to stimulate reflection about contemporary art worldwide, and encourage the creation of new institutional models for the support of arts and culture. Based in Ecatepec (in the outskirts of Mexico City), where it has a gallery and an extensive library specialized in contemporary art, Fundación/Colección Jumex will be opening a new multidisciplinary space in Mexico City in 2013. The new 4,000-square-meter building, designed by British architect David Chipperfield, will greatly increase its exhibition space and bring this important artistic and bibliographic resource to a wider audience.

Fundación/Colección Jumex
Vía Morelos 272,
Col. Santa María Tulpetlac
Ecatepec, México
www.lacoleccionjumex.org