Tempo Gallery’s $450,000 sale of a Julian Schnabel portray from 2023 leads the preliminary slate of reported transactions from Zona Maco 2025, which kicked off on Wednesday, February fifth.
The twenty first version of Zona Maco options some 200 galleries from throughout 29 nations. Mexico Metropolis’s premier artwork honest, happening on the Centro Cinitbanamex, is on the coronary heart of per week full of occasions and satellite tv for pc festivals, together with Materials and Salón Acme. The colourful native gallery scene can be abuzz,g with standout exhibitions on view by the weekend.
Notable institutional attendees at this 12 months’s honest—the most important in Latin America—included Jorge Pérez of the Pérez Artwork Museum Miami; Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak; and trustee teams from the Brooklyn Museum, SFMOMA, and ICA LA, as reported by ArtNews.
Zona Maco 2025 arrives amid U.S. president Donald Trump’s threats to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico. The tariffs are at the moment paused till subsequent month. Nonetheless, galleries reported optimism about business exercise all through the VIP day.
“The power at this honest is jubilant and filled with real ardour and curiosity,” Paul Henkel, founding father of Palo Gallery, mentioned in an announcement despatched to Artsy. “Given the uneven waters of the previous few months, it has been a breath of contemporary air seeing all these collectors keen to purchase and study.”
Under is a number of notable early gross sales reported by galleries at Zona Maco 2025.
High reported gross sales at Zona Maco
Along with the Schnabel work, Tempo Gallery’s reported gross sales included:
Sean Kelly Gallery’s reported gross sales included:
- Kehinde Wiley’s Congo Research II (2024) for $225,000.
- A Janaina Tschäpe portray for $100,000–$125,000.
- A Jose Dávila portray and a number of sculptures within the vary of $65,000–$100,000 every.
- A piece by Anthony Akinbola for $30,000–$50,000.
- A piece by Ana González in for $20,000–$30,000.
- A piece by Brian Rochefort for $20,000–$30,000.
- A number of works on paper by Marina Abramovic, Idris Khan, Sam Moyer, and Rebecca Horn within the vary of $10,000–$40,000 every.
Mexico Metropolis stalwart OMR’s reported gross sales included:
- A piece by Jorge Méndez Blake for $100,000–$120,000.
- A piece by Sebastian Silva for $80,000–$100,000.
- A piece by Jose Dávila for $80,000–$100,000.
- A piece by Alicja Kwade for €50,000–€70,000 ($51,000–$72,000).
- A piece by Juana Subercaseaux for $10,000–$18,000.
- A piece by Angel Cammen for $10,000–$15,000.
