After the appalling success of Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up at the Victoria & Albert Museum , Brooklyn is now preparing to receive a sample of the Mexican painter’s personal items from her Casa Azul in Mexico City , where she lived with the famous muralist Diego Rivera .
This will be the first time that a sample of the artist’s personal items will be shown in the United States . Furthermore, the exhibition will feature 10 paintings and drawings , as well as pieces of Mesoamerican art which inspired the illustrious Mexican artists.
Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
will be exhibited from February 8 to May 12 . Through their website, the museum indicated that Frida Kahlo defined herself through her ethnicity, disability, and political ideas, all of which served as an inspiration for her work.
Kahlo’s personal items were discovered and inventoried in 2004 .
Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
is based on the Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up exhibition from the Victoria & Albert Museum, which registered 280 thousand visitors over the course of five months .
The exposition “Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up” at the Victoria & Albert museum explored the Mexican painter through the concept of self-invention, the construction of a unique narrative of the self which guides specialists through an analysis of her public persona.
In an exclusive interview with EL UNIVERSAL , Tristam Hunt, director of the V&A museum , spoke about the deep similarities between Kahlo and the millennial generation, as well as the creation of a new intellectual current between Mexico and London.
“It is a great privilege to have some of Frida’s personal objects here. Given our knowledge of jewelry, textiles, fashion, and photography, we have managed to understand the collection and put it in context,” the director commented.
He explained that the exhibition was not about Frida’s work as a painter, “We wanted to analyze Frida herself as a work of art. We were interested in her identity construction and self-invention. Everyone knows Frida as an artist, but she was also a living portrait. We are hoping that this exhibition will recover some of her essence while showing a clinical analysis of what motivated her to construct her persona.”
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