Museo Tamayo for Wallpaper/Phaidon

Museo Tamayo for Wallpaper/Phaidon

Since the late sixties, Rufino Tamayo began acquiring works to form a collection of international contemporary art. The artist donated this collection with the aim of providing the Mexican public with an approach to the 20th-century art and, with the same goal, promoted the creation of the Museo Tamayo, which would house this collection. He worked closely with the architects Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro González de León in the design and construction of the museum. The building was planned and considered as another piece of the collection since the beginning. On May 29, 1981, this cultural venue was inaugurated with the sponsorship of Grupo Alfa and the Televisa Cultural Foundation.