HDI Exhibition Tip: “FRIDA KAHLO. BEYOND THE MYTH” AT MUDEC, MILAN, ITALY

On a recent trip to Italy we visited the spectacular Museum of Culture of Milan, short MUDEC. The museum featured an extensive exhibition on the work of Frida Kahlo which was curated by Diego Sileo, curator of Milan’s Pac and a scholar of Latin American art. All the works exhibited came from the Dolores Olmedo Museum in Mexico City and the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection –  the two most important and extensive collections of Frida Kahlo in the world – with the participation of leading international museums that will loan some of the masterpieces of the Mexican artist never seen in Italy (including the Phoenix Art Museum, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Buffalo Albright-Knox Art Gallery).

This extensive exhibition is particularly fascinating as it reveals, through artworks and documents, that Frida Kahlo was in effect a political activist, that she was aware of Diego Rivera’s influence on her painting and sought to avoid it, that she had a keen interest in drawing and, above all, that she was a great painter. Frida was extremely witty and ironical, and brought a sensuality to her still lifes, like nobody else. The show is now closed, but we want to share some of our highlights.

For more information on MUDEC and the exhibit click here

MUDEC
Museo delle Culture
via Tortona 56, CAP 20144 Milano