collectorspace invites Mexico City-based collector Cesar Cervantes and curator Lorena Jauregui to discuss “collecting without corrupting”—a topic that is core to Cervantes’s collecting practice. The event will take place at collectorspace on Saturday, October 12, 2013, 6:30–8pm.Cesar Cervantes started off by collecting modern Mexican masters, but eventually shifted his attention to works by contemporary international artists. He later began to revisit conceptual works from the 1960s and 1970s, questioning the existing readings of contemporary artistic production. He now contemplates a question rarely discussed: when to end collecting?Lorena Jáuregui currently works at the National Fund for Arts and Culture (FONCA) where she organizes the Young Artists Exhibitions. In the last 15 years, she has been involved with numerous private and public art institutions, and organized exhibitions with both Mexican and international artists in Mexico City.

The talk will be held in English. The event is free and open to all.

Photograph: Sebastiano Opellion
Courtesy of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Esther Schipper, Berlin, and Cesar Cervantes Collection.