Emerich and Pereda donate 89 works to the MAM

Collectors Luis Carlos Emerich and Rogelio Pereda recently donated 89 works from their personal collection, including painting, object art and photography, authored by 26 artists, to the Museum of Modern Art (MAM).

The artists are: Alejandro Arango, Mónica Castillo, AgustínLópez Castro, Ilán Lieberman, Yani Pecanins, Agustín Portillo, Francisco Ochoa, Georgina Quintana, Laura Quintanilla, Renato González, Carla Rippey, Betsabeé Romero, Rubén Rosas, Erik Pérez, Beatriz Ezban, Nahum B. Zenil, Héctor de Anda, Xavier Esqueda, Rodolfo Nieto, José Luis Cuevas, Lorena Alcaraz, Yolanda Andrade, Bernardo Arcos, Daniel Weinstok, Guillermo Gadda and Néstor Quiñones.

It is about the most robust donations we have received in years, which fill a gap in the collection in terms of works produced in the 80s and 90ssaid Natalia Pollak, director of the MAM, on the occasion of Free, very freea conversation organized in recognition of Emerich, art critic, curator and indispensable voice of the contemporary art scene.

Of the donated pieces, 31 are currently on display at the venue on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.

Emerich could not be present due to a chronic illness that keeps you housebound. In turn, Pereda regretted that Our country still lacks an altruistic culture of donating art from individuals to public entities. The construction of a broad and representative collection of the future of Mexican art is, undoubtedly, one of the priorities of the MAM. Without a doubt, the generosity of institutional and individual donors is key to increasing its permanent collection.said the professional chemist and photographer.

This is the first donation of a part of the Emerich-Pereda Collection of Contemporary Mexican Art to the MAM.

The artist Mónica Castillo reported that Emerich and Pereda were the first to buy her work: the oil paintings The flesh of Christ, The martyr’s plate y salad Venusincluded in If howgroup exhibition organized in 1987 by the OMR Gallery.

Emerich, said, in texts It slides through a very narrow space between the work, its context, the artist and his phrases, attaching serious reflections to humorous occurrences, revealing certainties here and there..