MEXICO CITY.- Museo Jumex announced today that the recent exhibition Appearance Stripped Bare: Desire and The Object in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, Even on view from May 19 through September 29, 2019 attracted more than 440,240 visitors, making it the most well attended show in the museum’s history and one of the most visited exhibitions of contemporary art in Mexico. Appearance Stripped Bare was the first major exhibition to bring together the work of two legendary artists, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons.

Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Appearance Stripped Bare featured more than 80 works by Koons and Duchamp drawn from more than 30 collections in Europe and the Americas. The exhibition, one of the most visited shows of contemporary art in Mexico of the was only presented at Museo Jumex.

The exhibition's public programs also drew record attendance throughout its run. Public talks and classes included the participation of Jeff Koons and Massimiliano Gioni, as well as David Campany, Thierry de Duve, Jeffrey Deitch, Christopher Domínguez Michael, Paul B. Franklin, Pepe Karmel, Choghakate Kazarian, Francis Naumann, Roselin Rodríguez Espinosa, Graciela Speranza, Calvin Tomkins, and Linda Yablonsky.

Appearance Stripped Bare featured Duchamp’s complete set of 1964 readymades including among others, Bicycle Wheel (1913), Bottle Rack (1914) and Fountain (1917), and Koons’ Rabbit (1986), Balloon Dog (Magenta) (1994-2000), Moon (Light Blue) (1995-2000), Play-Doh (1994-2014), and Hulk (Friends) (2004-2012), along with selections from all of his renowned series such as The New, Banality, Made in Heaven, Celebration, Antiquity and more.