Colección Jumex art at ASU Art Museum

Working in conjunction with Fundación/Colección Jumex, the ASU Art Museum at 10^th St. and Mill Avenue in Tempe is proud to present Turn off the Sun, a rare opportunity for the public to experience selected works of art from one of the largest and most important contemporary art collections in Latin America.

 
La Colección Jumex is a spectacular collection of more than 2,600 works by emerging and established contemporary artists from Mexico, Latin America, the United States and Europe. Based in Mexico City, Fundación/Colección Jumex has a 10-year history of supporting contemporary art through collecting, exhibitions and educational programs.
 
The exhibition Turn off the Sun presents major pieces and installations by artists rarely or never seen in Arizona exploring diverse media and practice. The work has been selected around the complex relationship between Arizona and Mexico with broad references to borders, labor, movement and site.
 
The exhibition is co-curated by ASU Art Museum Senior Curator and Associate Director Heather Sealy Lineberry, ASU Art Museum Curator Julio Cesar Morales and Curator Michel Blancsubé of Colección Jumex.
 
Turn off the Sun was organized in partnership with Fundación/Colección Jumex, with generous support from the Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation and additional support from the Helme Prinzen Endowment, Target, the Tempe Tourism Office, Dircks and Friends of the ASU Art Museum.

On Sept. 5, Paola Santoscoy, Mexican Curator, will present on the current Mexican art scene at 7 p.m.
 Paola Santoscoy is a curator and critic of contemporary art based in Mexico City. She organized The Nature of Things for the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, is co-founder of the curatorial project 111 (one artist, one day, one night), and is currently the director of El Museo Experimental El Eco, in Mexico City. In 2009, she earned a master’s degree from the Visual and Critical Studies Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.