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Due to its profile, the macg now stands out not only as a place that houses an important heritage collection, but also as a location where young artists can research and experiment. In the nineties it secured its place as an independent space, a laboratory where visual arts and new languages could always find free expression. Needless to say, the fore mentioned has provided the macg with a special place in Mexico’s cultural scene.
The museum was founded by Dr. Álvar Carrillo Gil, an entrepreneur from Yucatán who started off his collection by purchasing a José Clemente Orozco drawing titled La Chole (1913-15).
Thinking about an ideal place in which he could store and exhibit his collection, Carrillo Gil entrusted Fernando Gamboa with the museum’s exhibition project, and Augusto H. Álvarez with the architectural development, which was based on a ramp system allowing continuous circulation. The project also included extensive outward-facing latticework, which allowed for the control of natural lighting and temperature.
An economical impasse stopped the project, but the collector reached a sale-donation agreement with Mexico’s government, and eventually, in August 1974, Carrillo Gil and his wife, Carmen Tejero de Carrillo Gil, opened the museum under Fernando Gamboa’s management. Dr. Carrillo Gil died the following October.
The building was remodelled in the eighties by Augusto H. Álvarez Jr., who substituted the front windows for bush-hammered concrete slates and preserved the ramps as a fundamental feature of the building.
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