Exhibition | FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954) : AU-DELÀ DES APPARENCES | Palais Galliera (Paris)
FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954) : AU-DELÀ DES APPARENCES, from 15th September 2022 to 2nd January 2023, at Palais Galliera (Paris)
10, avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie
75016 Paris
The Paris fashion museum explores the artist’s world through the prism of her personal effects, rediscovered in 2004, including clothes, prostheses and perfume bottles, often re-appropriated by the Mexican artist.
When she arrived in Paris in 1939, Frida Kahlo was still described in artistic and intellectual circles as ‘Diego Rivera’s wife’, as Vassily Kandinsky put it.
Diego Rivera, a painter himself, was the Kahlo’s great and often wounded love. Kahlo was in the French capital for a group exhibition organised by André Breton at the Renou & Colle gallery in the eighth arrondissement. This visit enabled her to make a name for herself and build up a circle of friends made up of other women artists, who were also enamoured of strong and often overpowering male figures: Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso, and above all Jacqueline Lamba and Breton, with whom she is said to have had an affair.
Eighty years on, Frida Kahlo is back in Paris, the main subject of an exhibition at the Palais Galliera, the fashion museum of Paris, which examines the artist through her personal objects, displayed as mirrors to some of her works. Kept under seal for fifty years in her Mexico City home, Casa Azul, where she was born, lived and died in 1954, thousands of fetishes and other documents have reappeared on the surface of the world.
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