Eugenio López Alonso
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Eugenio López Alonso is the heir to the Grupo Jumex food-processing corporation in Mexico.
Eugenio Lopez Alonso is the founder of the Colección Jumex, also known as the Jumex Collection. It is one of the largest private modern art collections in the Americas, and said to be the largest in Latin America. His first museum space is within the Grupo Jumex’s food-processing plant in the suburbs of Mexico City. It now comprises around 1,200 works, about half by Latin American artists, most younger than 45. International artists collected by Mr López include Olafur Eliasson, Francis Alÿs, Doug Aitken, and Maurizio Cattelan, among many others.
Mr López owns homes in Mexico City and Los Angeles where he is a trustee of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, to which he pledged $500,000 to build a Latin American collection. He is also a trustee of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and has contributed more than $1 million to name a floor of the museum’s new building which broke ground in 2005.
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La Colección Jumex, official website
The Art Collection, article from 2005
Vison Quest, an article on Mr. Lopez's home in Los Angeles
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