{"id":2183,"date":"2022-02-28T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.civita.art\/mostre\/frida-kahlo-una-vita-per-immagini-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T14:09:36","slug":"frida-kahlo-una-vita-per-immagini-3","status":"publish","type":"mostre","link":"https:\/\/www.civita.art\/en\/exhibitions\/frida-kahlo-una-vita-per-immagini-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Frida Kahlo. Una vita per immagini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Frida Kahlo. Una vita per immagini<\/h1>\n\n27 Feb \u2013 22 Mag 2022<\/span>\n\n\n

With more than 100 photographs by some of the early 20th<\/sup> century photography masters, the exhibition FRIDA KAHLO. Una vita per immagini <\/em>aims to reconstruct the events that informed the nonconformist life of this great Mexican artist and to investigate the reasons why she became an international female icon.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

FRIDA KAHLO. Una vita per immagini<\/em> is a tribute to Frida Kahlo, an artist of international renown, as well as an icon not only of feminism, but also of multiculturalism. A sort of \u2018photo album\u2019 that reconstructs the often painful but always passionate events in her life, as well as the artist’s loves, friends, and adventures. The exhibition begins by presenting the context where such a unique personality developed: early 20th<\/sup> century Mexico undergoing a revolution that changed its history, thanks to humble campesinos and heroic characters such as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. The epic and myth of the Mexican revolution would remain impressed in Frida’s mind and shape her indomitable character, driving her rebellious nature against bourgeois conventions and the rules of a strongly sexist society. This is the context where the events of the Kahlo family unfolded. Guillermo, her father, was a professional photographer of German descent, who came to Mexico in 1891 and soon fell in love with the country that had welcomed him. Evidence of his work is provided by a number of photographs he had taken when working for the Austrian government to document Mexican churches built during the colonial period.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRead more<\/span>\n\n\n\n

Frida\u2019s troubled biographical events are narrated through 80, mostly original photographs, taken by Guillermo Kahlo himself during his daughter’s childhood and youth, and then by some of the greatest photographers of her time: Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Lucienne Bloch, Bernard Silbertein, Leo Matiz, Maunel and Lola \u00c1lvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diego Rivera \u2013 the great painter and muralist \u2013 is often portrayed alongside Frida. The two had an intense and stormy relationship, which spanned much of her lifetime and which lives on in their Casa Azul. Now turned into museum, Casa Azul is also documented by some photographs at the end of the exhibition, together with the large painting reproducing Las Dos Frida, made by the Chinese painter Xu De Qi. Other important celebrities, such as Leon Trotsky and Andr\u00e9 Breton, are also portrayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the few still available videos about Frida are presented in a vide story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition is promoted by the City of Ancona, Department of Culture and organised by Civita Mostre e Musei together with Diffusione Italia International Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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INFO<\/h2>\n\n\n27 Feb \u2013 22 Mag 2022<\/span>\n\n\nAncona, Mole Vanvitelliana, Sala Vanvitelli, Banchina Giovanni da Chio, 28<\/span>\n\n\n\n