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2011-01-29 16:02:30 UTC
Latin American Herald Tribune - 22/01/2011
MEXICO CITY – The most ambitious cultural project undertaken to date
by Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world according to Forbes
magazine, is nearing completion, and in a few months will exhibit in
an innovative museum “the best” of his private art collection, made up
of some 66,000 works, chiefly from Latin America and Europe.
Construction of the new Soumaya Museum, designed by his son-in-law,
the Mexican architect Fernando Romero, started on Mexico City’s west
side in 2008, and its inauguration is slated for this coming April,
its future curator Alfonso Miranda said on Friday.
The imposing edifice, with its soaring curvilinear structure and a
facade covered with 16,000 hexagonal mirrors of varying sizes, will
boast an exhibition space of 6,000 square meters (64,000 square feet)
distributed on six floors.
Notable among the masterpieces chosen for display are works by
Picasso, Rodin, Dali and the Mexicans Diego Rivera, Clemente Orozco
and Rufino Tamayo.
Also on show will be works by European masters including El Greco,
Rubens and Tintoretto, painters of the Spanish colonial baroque school
such as Jose Juarez and Miguel Herrera, and 19th century Mexican
landscapists.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=384815&CategoryId=13003
MEXICO CITY – The most ambitious cultural project undertaken to date
by Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world according to Forbes
magazine, is nearing completion, and in a few months will exhibit in
an innovative museum “the best” of his private art collection, made up
of some 66,000 works, chiefly from Latin America and Europe.
Construction of the new Soumaya Museum, designed by his son-in-law,
the Mexican architect Fernando Romero, started on Mexico City’s west
side in 2008, and its inauguration is slated for this coming April,
its future curator Alfonso Miranda said on Friday.
The imposing edifice, with its soaring curvilinear structure and a
facade covered with 16,000 hexagonal mirrors of varying sizes, will
boast an exhibition space of 6,000 square meters (64,000 square feet)
distributed on six floors.
Notable among the masterpieces chosen for display are works by
Picasso, Rodin, Dali and the Mexicans Diego Rivera, Clemente Orozco
and Rufino Tamayo.
Also on show will be works by European masters including El Greco,
Rubens and Tintoretto, painters of the Spanish colonial baroque school
such as Jose Juarez and Miguel Herrera, and 19th century Mexican
landscapists.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=384815&CategoryId=13003