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Frida Kahlo – Her Photos exhibition reveals the intimacy of the great Mexican artist and offers a new perspective on the turbulent life of one of the most mysterious and emblematic figures of Latin-American art. Since its first presentation, in Mexico City, in 2009, the exhibition has been touring around the world, reaching almost a million visitors in twenty different cities.
Despite the importance of photography to Frida Kahlo, a major part of her collection of photographs was hidden away from the public for several decades. When she died, in 1954, her husband Diego Rivera donated their house – known as the Blue House (Casa Azul), in Mexico City – to the Mexican people, so that they could turn it into a museum about Frida’s life and work. This was the beginning of what is nowadays the Frida Kahlo Museum, one of the most popular museums in the world.
Frida Kahlo’s personal archive
Although Diego gave Frida’s artworks and objects to the museum, he asked to lock a part of them away from people’s curious eyes. That is the main reason why this personal archive, which included more than six thousand photographs, some drawings, letters, medicines and clothes, was closed for five long decades. A Blue House’s bathroom was the chosen place to save those treasures, and therefore gained an almost mythical aura.
It was only in 2003 that the numbed archive was opened. A selected part of the newly found photographs was transformed into this exhibition, curated by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, a well-known Mexican photographer and historian of photography in Mexico.
Frida Kahlo – Her Photos exhibition shows 241 unpublished photographs that represent diverse periods and people in Frida’s life and which were also objects of her personal affection.
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