Cristóbal Arias (Director, Casa Museo Antonieta Rivas Mercado), Veka Duncan (art historian specializing in cultural dissemination), and Mario Uvence (antique dealer and Co-curator of ZⓈONAMACO SALÓN DEL ANTICUARIO). Moderator: Alfonso Miranda (Co-curator of ZⓈONAMACO SALÓN DEL ANTICUARIO).
“Do not follow in my footsteps; see what I saw,” declared Luis Barragán. Vision is nourished by the world and by the discovery of the found object, which becomes a personal symbol upon encounter. In art, “antiques” act as windows into pasts viewed from the present. The “salon object” exists in dialogue across time, opening this conversation within ZⓈONAMACO’s broad aesthetic spectrum. Paintings, sculptures, books, jewelry, and decorative arts produced before 1960 shape their identity through a transversal collecting effort. A meeting for the exhibition, circulation, and sale of the singular object that sparked the first desire to possess beauty transcends limits to evoke memory, contrast, nostalgia and ultimately shape our hyper-contemporary condition.