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Armando Garza Sada Sr (14 July 1933 – 15 March 2017) was a Mexican Businessman,[1] Art Collector, and Philanthropist. In his honour, his family established the AGS Sr Endowment for the Arts.[2]
Early Life
[edit]Armando Garza Sada was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, to parents[3] Margarita Sada García de Garza and Roberto Garza Sada along with four siblings, Bernardo, Dionisio, Margarita[4] and Roberto. Armando attended primary school at the Instituto Regiomontano, followed by High School at Chauncey Hall in central Boston and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1956 after studying Industrial Engineering and Business.
Career
[edit]He started his career working for his father at the steel company Hojalata y Lámina S.A. (Hylsa), now Ternium Hylsa. He later became President of Financiera Aceptaciones which went on to merge with Banco de Londres in 1977 to become Banca Serfin, Mexico's third-largest bank. He was CFO at Alfa Headquarters and a Founding Board Member from 1974 to 1994. In the 1980s, he was Chair of the Board for Troqueles y Esmaltes.
Family
[edit]He married his wife Sylvia Sada Zambrano on September 15, 1956, and together had four children Armando, Merici, Brenda and Fabiola.[5]
His father Roberto Garza Sada (Monterrey, Nuevo León; December 9, 1895 - December 13, 1979) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who participated in the foundation and direction of Grupo Cervecería Cuauhtémoc, Hojalata y Lámina (HYLSA), Empacciones de Carton Titan and Compañía Financiera General de Aceptaciones. Roberto Garza Sada Sr was celebrated for his contribution to the Instituto Superior de Estudios de Diseño "Arte AC" (Monterrey), which was founded by his sister Rosario, the construction of the Guadalupe church (San Pedro Garza García, Monterrey), the promotion of art exhibitions and the provision of scholarships for Mexican musicians to stay abroad. Roberto was the main founder of The University of Monterrey UDEM. In addition, he gave a significant financial endowment to his daughter, Margarita Garza Sada, to create the museum "Promoción de las Artes en Monterrey".[6] Margarita Garza Sada later founded The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, MARCO, in 1991 with Diego Sada.
His uncle Eugenio Garza Sada (Monterrey, Nuevo León, January 11, 1892 - September 17, 1973) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist, son of Isaac Garza Garza, co-founder of the Cuauhtémoc Brewery. He held various positions and shared the board with Roberto Garza Sada until he became the president of the holding company that managed the conglomerate of companies related to the brewery, Valores Industriales (VISA). In 1943, he was the leader of the group of entrepreneurs who founded the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. It is named after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). On September 17, 1973, Garza Sada was assassinated by a command of the Communist League on September 23.
His Grandparents were Isaac Garza Garza and Consuelo Sada Muguerza. Isaac Garza Garza (Monterrey, Nuevo León, June 3, 1853 - May 1, 1933), was a Mexican businessman. He founded the Cuauhtémoc Brewery, and later, he was president of the Board of the Compañía Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey, and the Vidriera Group. These companies were later the core of what was called Grupo Monterrey one of the most important industrial conglomerates in Mexico, made up in turn of two large consortia: Grupo Industrial Alfa, initially led by his grandson, Bernardo Garza Sada, and Valores Industriales (VISA), initially led by another of his grandchildren Eugenio Garza Lagüera. Consuelo Sada Muguerza, was the sister of businessman Francisco Sada Muguerza; Of this union their eight children were born: Consuelo, Isaac, Angelina, Eugenio, Rosario, Roberto, Carmen and Amparo. Francisco de Paula Guadalupe Sada Muguerza (December 12, 1856 - March 31, 1945) was a Mexican businessman and industrialist, a member of the Monterrey Group, and founding Director of Cuauhtémoc Brewery.
Armando Garza Sada Sr (AGS) Endowment for the Arts
[edit]AGS Sr Endowment for the Arts has a specific remit to facilitate the inclusion of alternative narratives in UK and US arts programming through symposiums and exhibitions. In 2023, launching an annual symposium at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, UK, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Huston, USA, to bring global majority scholars to respond to the museum's programmes.
2024
[edit]- Art, Colonialism and Change Symposium, Friday 26 April, 2024, Royal Academy of Art London.[7]
- Orozco and Mexican Post-Revolutionary Art, September 14, 2024 The Museum of Fine Arts, Huston.[2]
2023
[edit]- Spain and the Hispanic World Symposium: cross-cultural Exchanges, Friday 24 March, 2023, Royal Academy of Art London[8]
- Labor and National Identity in Diego Rivera's "La Bordadora (The Embroiderer)" presented by art historian James Oles, Friday 11, 2023, The Museum of Fine Arts, Huston[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Armando Garza Sada (1933–2017)". www.elnorte.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ^ a b "Lecture | Orozco and Mexican Post-Revolutionary Art". The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ^ "Don Roberto Garza Sada y Doña Margarita Sada García con sus hijos - Periódico El Regio". elregio.com. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ^ "Margarita Garza Sada (1925–2014)". Grupo Milenio (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ^ JP (2024-12-05). "Instituto Cervantes y UNAM acuerdan que México sea sede del Observatorio Global del Español". López-Dóriga Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ^ LORDUY-OSÉS, Lucas (November 2022). "El mecenazgo mexicano en la recuperación del patrimonio artístico español. La familia Garza-Sada/Fernández-Zambrano (Monterrey)". Santander Estudios de Patrimonio (5): 197–238. doi:10.22429/Euc2022.sep.05.09.
- ^ "Art, colonialism and change: symposium | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ^ "Spain and the Hispanic World Symposium: cross-cultural exchanges | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ^ "Lecture | Labor and National Identity in Diego Rivera's "La Bordadora (The Embroiderer)"". The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved 2024-12-05.