Lopez made his savviest pick in 1994, when he began buying work by Mexican conceptual artist Gabriel Orozco, then relatively unknown.
Preeminent international contemporary art gallery White Cube will be showing US abstract artist Mark Bradford and Mexican conceptual artist Gabriel Orozco, among others.
Almost 3, 000 daily visitors saw the works of conceptual artist Hirst, beating Edward Hopper (429, 909) in 2004 and Paul Gauguin (420, 686) in 2010-11.
Here they see Mexican conceptual artist Inaki Bonillas' wall of buzzing neon, situated a few steps away from a Jeff Koons work (three basketballs floating in a fish aquarium).
The Biennale will also feature several exhibitions with Texas ties, such as a new country song created by conceptual artist Mario Garcia Torres about the earthworks artist Robert Smithson, who died in a plane crash in Texas.
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While in the city Ono was made a Doctor of Laws by the University of Liverpool in recognition of her work as a conceptual artist, and for the John Lennon Memorial Scholarship which she helped establish in 1991.
Perhaps his savviest find was Orozco, the Mexican conceptual artist who, through the patronage of Lopez and others, went from virtual unknown to art-world hotshot mainly through the popularity of his Cibachromes, which are photographic prints saturated with colors.
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And the pervasive feeling in-house is that the new arrival a beeswax chamber designed by conceptual artist Wolfgang Laib, opening Saturday couldn't be more true to the vision of Duncan Phillips (1886-1966) when he opened his private collection to the public in 1921.
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The main space shows international names such as Conceptual Art movement founder Sol LeWitt, while up-and-comers such as South African video artist Candice Breitz are featured in the basement.
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