Latin American Avant-Garde and Primitive Art Dialogue with Collector Juan Carlos Maldonado

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The Venezuelan Juan Carlos Maldonado (Puerto Ordaz, 1963) threw himself full in 2005 in the waters of collectingism. Before, he confessed, he had no works of art, but inspired by his aunt, the collector Milagros Maldonado, began a journey that has led him to gather one of the most important collections in Latin America. The businessman and patron was also attracted by the abstract geometry of modern Latin American masters and later by the aesthe…