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PATRICK CHARPENEL
The Director of The Jumex Museum, Mexico’s Newest
Shrine To Contemporary Art, Leads With Vision
Charpenel is an art curator and art term lender to exhibitions and galleries and He was guest curator for the 2009 and 2010 Art
made a bequest of 150 works to the Museo Projects section at the Art Basel Miami Beach
promoter with a background in philosophy Universitario Arte Contemporáneo México. fair, among others. Since 2005, he has been
who highlights the paradoxes and ambiguities Charpenel has presented a large number of the curator and coordinator of the Botanical
of the contemporary world. exhibits in several spaces both in Mexico and Garden art project in Culiacan, Mexico.
He passionately believes that the duty of a abroad. He curated the retrospective Gabriel He writes critical texts in specialized art
collector is to share his passion with those not Orozco at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas magazines. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico in
in a position to collect. He has been a long- Artes, Mexico, in 2006. 1967, Patrick Charpenel lives and works in
Mexico City.
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