Antonio del Valle

Antonio del Valle is a Mexican businessman and collector founder of Museo Kaluz.

Inaugurated in 2020, the museum was conceived to disseminate the art collection that the businessman gathered over five decades with the purpose of sharing and socializing it with a triple objective: to contribute to the recovery and conservation of Mexican artistic heritage; to detonate its knowledge through the study and dissemination of works and authors; as well as to strengthen the feeling of self-identity through artistic expressions close to the realities of the country.

The artists exiled in Mexico in the context of the Spanish Civil War form one of the main axes of the Kaluz Collection, being one of the collections with the largest number of works by these creative refugees in Latin America. The museum contributes to their study and diffusion by researching and disseminating their cultural legacy in their continent. The Kaluz Collection proposes to add value to the current artistic panorama through the collective -and therefore representative- condition of its works, while at the same time vindicating the talent of numerous creators.

The collection remains faithful to the collector’s taste for figurative art, freely proceeding to bring together works from different periods, styles and currents. As a whole, four major genres can be identified: landscape, still life, portrait and genre painting. These themes speak, at the end of the day, of what is Mexican.