Alicante, gallery owners donate three hundred works to Museum of Contemporary Art to support culture

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante (MACA) will acquire about three hundred works thanks to a generous donation from an American gallery owner, Michael Jenkins, and an art historian from Alicante, Javier Romero. The two chose to donate the bulk of their contemporary art collection: works by more than one hundred and fifty artists representative of the various currents and avant-gardes of the last fifty years.

The donation has the total value of just over two million euros, but Jenkins and Romero decided not to receive any financial consideration, as their common goal is “to support culture without thinking about profit.” The City of Alicante, to which MACA belongs, has already approved the donation, which has a strong social component: according to Romero’s statement, these are works that address formal issues, but also “an eclectic and broad vision on gender, sexual and racial identity.” “Forty percent of the collection,” he continues, “is by women artists and also includes twelve or fourteen of the most prominent African American artists of recent decades.”

Artists in the couple’s collection include Teresa Lacenta, Alicantino Aurelio Ayela and Olga Diego, Americans Leonardo Drew, Kara Walker Tony Feher, Jeff Gibson, Corita Kent, Venezuelan Arturo Herrera, Canadian Tony Gray, Brazilian Vik Muniz, German Janaina Tschape, Italian Massimo Pisani, British Amalia Pica, and Japanese Takashi Murakami. Works include drawings, sculptures, paintings, graphics, photographs, installations and videos.

Probably, the donated collection will be presented to the public with an exhibition in order to make it known and spread it to most, to also create collaborations with other institutions.

Ph.Credit MACA Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante

Alicante, gallery owners donate three hundred works to Museum of Contemporary Art to support culture

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