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Frida Kahlo´s art arrives in Milan
January 27, 2018With the exhibition, Frida. Beyond the myth (Frida. Oltre il myito), the Museum of Culture of Milan, (Museo delle Culture di Milano) Italy, will propose a new retrospective and reading of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo based on her painting work.
The exhibition, which will be open to the public from February 1 to June 3, 2018, will comprise over 100 pieces of the artist’s work, four of them from the Tlaxcala Art Museum's collection, the third largest of the artist (with six pieces), after the Dolores Olmedo Museum in Mexico City and the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collections.
The oil paintings Portrait of Miguel N. Lira, Pancho Villa and Adelita, the watercolor Frida in Coyoacán, created in 1926 and 1927, and the Signature table of Frida Kahlo and Miguel N. Lira, are the works on loan by the Mexican museum.
Armando Díaz de la Mora, coordinator of the State Museum Network in Tlaxcala, said that such paintings belonged to the early days of Frida Kahlo, immediately following her accident in 1925, when the truck she was traveling on was hit by a tram.
“These are the first Kahlos, which when contrasted with the other pieces to be exhibited in Italy will show that Frida was gaining awareness of her problems and physical pain manifested through art, which was not yet developed in her self-portrait Frida en Coyoacán, 1926.
Regarding the portrait of Miguel N. Lira (1927), he said that it presents aspects that make it valuable. “It is signed as Frieda, the German name with which she was baptized, it has a bit of stridentism and elements that are symbolic, such as a lyre to represent the surname of her friend, the Archangel St. Michael, an R to speak of Michael's wife, among others.”
Concerning the oil painting Pancho Villa and Adelita, the official said Frida Kahlo painted herself dressed for a party in the center of the painting. The painting has the portrait of Pancho Villa, and has a series of paintings within the same work, there are figures that are surely her friends Los Cachuchas.”
About the signature table of Frida Kahlo and Miguel N. Lira, he said it was a wooden table belonging to Lira, in which he collected autographs of his friends.
In 1948 Frida Kahlo wrote a dedication to her friend: “Chong Lee (a writer's nickname in high school because of his pleasure in Chinese poetry), Mike, my forever brother, don't forget the ninth cap. Frida Kahlo”, she drew herself with a cap, in addition to expressing her own signature.
Frida Kahlo left through the writer and poet Miguel N. Lira an invaluable cultural heritage for Tlaxcala, as five of the artist's six works that the Tlaxcala Art Museum has in its collection, were gifts from the painter to the Tlaxcalteca publisher and master.
“Miguel N. Lira, who died on February 26, 1961, left his patrimony to Rebeca Torres and she left it to a priest who 20 years after the death of these people comes close to the government of Tlaxcala who acquires them”, said Armando Díaz de la Mora.
These original pieces by the artist born in Coyoacán in 1907 have been on display in international exhibitions in Colombia, Korea, Italy, England. “They are very demanded paintings that have been in different parts of the world and the country, such as Monterrey and Merida”.
Armando Díaz de la Mora reported that the Mutec exhibition will also show four original letters from Frida Kahlo addressed to Miguel N. Lira, loaned by a private collector from Tlaxcala.
At the end of the exhibition Frida. Beyond the myth, the official said that the oil paintings Portrait of Miguel N. Lira and Pancho Villa and La Adelita, will be lent for an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, while the watercolor Frida in Coyoacán, and the Table of signatures of Frida Kahlo and Miguel N. Lira will return to the permanent exhibition of the Tlaxcala Art Museum.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
