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December 23 - March 20
The works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two prominent Mexican painters, will be exhibited in Istanbul’s Pera Museum between December 23 to March 20, 2011. This will be the first time the paintings of Kahlo and Rivera will be displayed in Turkey.
This December Istanbul will see the works of Diego Rivero and Frida Kahlo, two globally renowned Mexican figures of 20th century art in Pera Museum.
Brougth to the Pera Mueseum from Gelman Collection, the exhibition introduces to art lovers with total of 40 works of two outstanding Mexican figures.
This will be the first time the paintings of Kahlo and Rivera will be displayed in Turkey.
The works included in the couple's extensive collection, which also encompasses 20th century Mexican art, include the most outstanding Frida Kahlo self-portraits, which reflect the profound traces of her artistic personality, as well as rare examples of Diego Rivera's canvas paintings. This globally acclaimed collection was previously presented to audiences through a limited number of exhibitions outside of Mexico.
Apart from the most favored Kahlo works of the Frida Kahlo Retrospective organized in Berlin and Vienna in 2010, the exhibition at Pera Museum also includes Diego Rivera's paintings.
Generating wide interest as much with their unique characters, life stories, and intriguing relationship, as with their oeuvre, the two painters will meet with art lovers.
Collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman spent a significant portion of their lives in Mexico; the works included in the couple's extensive collection, which also encompasses 20th century Mexican art, include the most outstanding Frida Kahlo self-portraits, which reflect the profound traces of her artistic personality, as well as rare examples of Diego Rivera's canvas paintings. This globally acclaimed collection was previously presented to audiences through a limited number of exhibitions outside of Mexico.
Apart from the most favored Kahlo works of the Frida Kahlo Retrospective organized in Berlin and Vienna in 2010, the exhibition at Pera Museum also includes Diego Rivera's paintings. The works of Frida and Diego, who inspired the motion picture and literary worlds with their oeuvre and unconventional lives, can be visited at Pera Museum until 20 March 2011.
Married to Diego Rivera, Kahlo's work is remembered for its "pain and passion", and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition figure prominently in her work, which has sometimes been characterized as Naive art or folk art. Her work has also been described as "surrealist", and in 1938 one surrealist described Kahlo herself as a "ribbon around a bomb".
After the 1940s, the world of objects in Frida’s early oil paintings are replaced by an entirely different world of drawing that stems from the realm of fantasy. For Kahlo, the crucial factor was that drawings could be executed with very few pieces of equipment. They were more spontaneous and direct than the complicated oil paintings. As she lay in her sick bed, Frida was able to work easily on her drawings with pencils or sepia ink.
With all those muddled and profound fantasies, these masterful drawings thus take us to an entirely unique world of form that is usually not associated with Frida. At times, easily identifiable portraits of friends and relatives, as well as Frida’s self-portraits also find their way into the drawings.
Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The exhibition will stay open till March 20, 2011.
Parallel Events to the Exhibition
Parallel to the exhibition two important talks will take place. The first talk entitled "Frida Kahlo: Portrait of a Life" by Salomon Grimberg, an expert on Mexican artsits, will take place on 22 January Saturday. The second talk will be given by photography artist Cristina Kahlo who is the granddaughter of Cristina Kahlo; Frida Kahlo’s sister.
Pera Museum's film events, Pera Film, will be showcasing the program "Viva la Revolución! Films on the Mexican Revolution" between 14-30 January 2011.
The works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two prominent Mexican painters, will be exhibited in Istanbul’s Pera Museum between December 23 to March 20, 2011. This will be the first time the paintings of Kahlo and Rivera will be displayed in Turkey.
This December Istanbul will see the works of Diego Rivero and Frida Kahlo, two globally renowned Mexican figures of 20th century art in Pera Museum.
Brougth to the Pera Mueseum from Gelman Collection, the exhibition introduces to art lovers with total of 40 works of two outstanding Mexican figures.
This will be the first time the paintings of Kahlo and Rivera will be displayed in Turkey.
The works included in the couple's extensive collection, which also encompasses 20th century Mexican art, include the most outstanding Frida Kahlo self-portraits, which reflect the profound traces of her artistic personality, as well as rare examples of Diego Rivera's canvas paintings. This globally acclaimed collection was previously presented to audiences through a limited number of exhibitions outside of Mexico.
Apart from the most favored Kahlo works of the Frida Kahlo Retrospective organized in Berlin and Vienna in 2010, the exhibition at Pera Museum also includes Diego Rivera's paintings.
Generating wide interest as much with their unique characters, life stories, and intriguing relationship, as with their oeuvre, the two painters will meet with art lovers.
Collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman spent a significant portion of their lives in Mexico; the works included in the couple's extensive collection, which also encompasses 20th century Mexican art, include the most outstanding Frida Kahlo self-portraits, which reflect the profound traces of her artistic personality, as well as rare examples of Diego Rivera's canvas paintings. This globally acclaimed collection was previously presented to audiences through a limited number of exhibitions outside of Mexico.
Apart from the most favored Kahlo works of the Frida Kahlo Retrospective organized in Berlin and Vienna in 2010, the exhibition at Pera Museum also includes Diego Rivera's paintings. The works of Frida and Diego, who inspired the motion picture and literary worlds with their oeuvre and unconventional lives, can be visited at Pera Museum until 20 March 2011.
Married to Diego Rivera, Kahlo's work is remembered for its "pain and passion", and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition figure prominently in her work, which has sometimes been characterized as Naive art or folk art. Her work has also been described as "surrealist", and in 1938 one surrealist described Kahlo herself as a "ribbon around a bomb".
After the 1940s, the world of objects in Frida’s early oil paintings are replaced by an entirely different world of drawing that stems from the realm of fantasy. For Kahlo, the crucial factor was that drawings could be executed with very few pieces of equipment. They were more spontaneous and direct than the complicated oil paintings. As she lay in her sick bed, Frida was able to work easily on her drawings with pencils or sepia ink.
With all those muddled and profound fantasies, these masterful drawings thus take us to an entirely unique world of form that is usually not associated with Frida. At times, easily identifiable portraits of friends and relatives, as well as Frida’s self-portraits also find their way into the drawings.
Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The exhibition will stay open till March 20, 2011.
Parallel Events to the Exhibition
Parallel to the exhibition two important talks will take place. The first talk entitled "Frida Kahlo: Portrait of a Life" by Salomon Grimberg, an expert on Mexican artsits, will take place on 22 January Saturday. The second talk will be given by photography artist Cristina Kahlo who is the granddaughter of Cristina Kahlo; Frida Kahlo’s sister.
Pera Museum's film events, Pera Film, will be showcasing the program "Viva la Revolución! Films on the Mexican Revolution" between 14-30 January 2011.
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