With more than 100 photographs by some of the early 20th century photography masters, the exhibition FRIDA KAHLO. Una vita per immagini 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.
FRIDA KAHLO. Una vita per immagini 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 ‘photo album’ 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 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.
Read moreFrida’s 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 Álvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, among others.
Diego Rivera – the great painter and muralist – 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 André Breton, are also portrayed.
Finally, the few still available videos about Frida are presented in a vide story.
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.
TUE- SUN: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
MON: CLOSED
Special openings: Monday, 17 and 25 April.
The whole exhibition is illustrated in a comprehensive audioguide, included in the admission ticket and available to all visitors.
With your FRIDA KAHLO. Una vita per immagini ticket you can get a discount for the other exhibition Terrasacra, held at the Mole. With this mutual promotion, with your Terrasacra ticket you can get a discount for the Frida Kahlo exhibition.
Standard ticket: € 11.00
Discounted ticket: € 9.00 for groups of more than 12 people, holders of tickets of Terrasacra exhibition, non-accredited journalists, holders of concession cards
Special discounted ticket: € 4,00 for youth from 6 to 18 years, schools
Free admission: for children under 6, disabled individuals with one accompanying person, accredited journalists, licensed tourist guides, teachers accompanying schools
Presale charges € 1.00
