Both that show and “The Air is Blue” grew out of conversations Mr Obrist had with local artists who expressed a passion for these evocative spaces and longed to be let loose in them. Several of the artists in the Mexican show have sought to resuscitate aspects of Barragán's life in his home. Cerith Wyn Evans, a British artist who helped Mr Obrist organise the John Soane show, was so fascinated by the 1950s turntables that Barragán kept in every room that he set about repairing them in order to play pieces from Barragán's voluminous music collection throughout the house. “Who would have thought that he'd have 16 Eartha Kitt records and 11 different recordings of Stravinsky's ‘Rite of Spring'?” says Mr Wyn Evans. “He had enormously broad tastes.”