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Rolando López: Guggenheim Museum Aguascalientes
Curated by Edgar Alejandro Hernández The exhibition titled Guggenheim Museum Aguascalientes, by the Mexican artist Rolando López, criticizes the toxic legacy that the American industrialist Robert Solomon Guggenheim (1861–1949) left behind in the city of Aguascalientes. Guggenheim amassed part of his fortune through a contract that the Aguascalientes state government awarded him in 1894, which granted him several acres of land, tax-free, upon which he enjoyed exploitation of all natural resources. In this land, he established the Gran Fundición Central Mexicana mineral foundry in the state capital of Aguascalientes. In the late 19th century, Guggenheim's metallurgical company promised development and progress for Aguascalientes, but the expected economic boom never came. This did not ...
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Curated by Edgar Alejandro Hernández
The exhibition titled Guggenheim Museum Aguascalientes, by the Mexican artist Rolando López, criticizes the toxic legacy that the American industrialist Robert Solomon Guggenheim (1861–1949) left behind in the city of Aguascalientes. Guggenheim amassed part of his fortune through a contract that the Aguascalientes state government awarded him in 1894, which granted him several acres of land, tax-free, upon which he enjoyed exploitation of all natural resources. In this land, he established the Gran Fundición Central Mexicana mineral foundry in the state capital of Aguascalientes.
In the late 19th century, Guggenheim's metallurgical company promised development and progress for Aguascalientes, but the expected economic boom never came. This did not ...