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Almost a hundred pieces will be exhibited
The Frida Kahlo exhibition, Connections between surrealist women in Mexico will be inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro.
January 27, 2016Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro will inaugurate The Frida Kahlo exhibition, Connections between Surrealists Women in Mexico which will be on display from January 30 to March 27 2016. The exhibition brings together 30 works by the Mexican artist, including paintings and works on paper, photographs and lithographs, as well as other works of various artists linked to the Surrealist Movement that altogether make up nearly a hundred pieces.
Frida Kahlo's works that visitors can enjoy are 20 oil paintings and 10 works on paper, including drawings, collages and lithographs, a total of nearly 100 works including others by 14 women artists born or rooted in Mexico.
Among the artists whose work will be exhibited are: María Izquierdo, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Rosa Rolanda, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Lucienne Bloch, Alice Rahon, Kati Horna, Bridget Tichenor, Jacqueline Lamba, Bonn Mandiargues, Cordelia Urueta, Olga Costa and Sylvia Fein.
The exhibition was curated by Teresa Arcq, who investigated, collected and added to the exhibit the work of surrealist artists who have been influenced by Frida Kahlo, and declared that her goal is "to show the Brazilian public a free and a great creative woman who was present in the life and work of other women. "
In this way, the exhibition shows a broad overview of the artist's fine art thought and seeks to reveal the complicated web of imagination formed around her figure.
The exhibition, which includes paintings, sculptures and photographs, as well as documents, photographic records, catalogs and reports, will occupy three halls of Caixa Cultural de Rio de Janeiro. As part of the exhibition there will be a cinematographic show that will accompany the tour about surrealism and Frida Kahlo’s history. There are works by artists Alice Rahon, Rara Avis, Jacqueline Lamba, Leonora Carrington, among others.
The president of the Caixa, Miriam Belchior said that this exhibition is a reference point for cultural marketing policy of the bank.
"In the last four years, the bank invested more than $ 60 million in culture, and only in 2015, the investment was more than $ 20 million. Bringing Frida Kahlo is joined with the goal of entering the route of the major exhibitions in the country and be able to provide a bridge between the Brazilian public and international renown artists" Miriam Belchior said.
The exhibition was conceived and coordinated by the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo, which hosted the exhibition from September 27 to January 10 this year, and is sponsored by the Caixa, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (SRE, for its acronym in Spanish), the Embassy of Mexico in Brazil, the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA, for its acronym in Spanish), the Ministry of Culture of the federal government and the Tourism Promotion Council of Mexico (CPTM, for its acronym in Spanish).
An unique exhibition
After over 100 days of exhibition at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo, Brazil, the exhibit Frida Kahlo. Connections between surrealist women in Mexico, closed on January 10 with a record attendance of 600,000 people.
With this result, the exhibition dedicated to Mexican artist, leaves behind exhibits with the highest audience so far registered, such as the retrospective dedicated to Salvador Dali which recorded 536,000 visits, and Infinite Obsession by Japanese Yayoi Kusama, with an attendance of 522,000 people.
Twenty paintings, ten self-portraits and thirteen works were exhibited at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake de São Paulo, the same that will travel to the Caixa Cultural de Rio de Janeiro, as well as portraits of the artist by Nickolas Murray, Bernard Silberstein, Martin Munkácsi and Héctor García.
In the city of Rio de Janeiro, it is expected Frida Kahlo. Connections between surrealist women in Mexico, with the same success it had in the city of São Paulo.
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