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“Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo” at the MCA, takes the focus off Frida Kahlo the celebrity and puts it back on her artistic legacy. 
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20 March - 31 August 2014
The exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, running from 20 March to 31 August 2014, explores the art of Frida Kahlo and her ties with the artistic movements of her time, from Mexican Modernism to international Surrealism, analysing their influence on her work.
The exhibition at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, entitled Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and due to run from 20 September 2014 to 15 February 2015, carries on the story, taking an in-depth look at Frida's private life, a world of immense suffering at the hub of which we invariably find her husband Diego Rivera, in a relationship that was to have a huge impact on her art.
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Jusqu’en janvier 2014, le musée de l’Orangerie, à Paris, accueille l’exposition « Frida et Diego art en fusion » qui montre le talent exceptionnel de Frida Kahlo et Diego Rivera, au-delà de leur histoire d’amour épique. On y voit aussi comment cette femme, artiste, exceptionnelle ne cessa de prendre sa revanche sur une vie faite de souffrance et de déchirures."
Caroline Claeys's insight:
Frida Kahlo Diego Rivera - L'art en fusion Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris jusqu'au 13 janvier 2014
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Je n'ai jamais vu de fresque de Diego Rivera, ayant toujours dû me contenter de reproductions. L'exposition à l'Orangerie (jusqu'au 13 janvier) offre de grandes reproductions photographiques, des photos de l'artiste en action de Gisèle Freund et un petit film et, faute de mieux, ce poncif de L'Exécution de Maximilien, même s'il ne donne qu'une idée très sommaire de ce à quoi ressemble le mural une fois terminé. Or, c'est bien évidemment dans ses œuvres publiques immenses que le talent de Rivera se révèle le mieux : certains de ses portraits 'indigènes' présentés ici semblent honnêtes sans plus, manquant de force, trop documentaires...
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"Son corps martyrisé a fait de sa vie un enfer. Mais l’amour et la peinture l’ont sauvée. A Paris, le musée de l’Orangerie rend hommage au couple légendaire qu’elle formait avec Diego Rivera."
Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera. L'art en fusion Du 9 octobre 2013 au 13 janvier 2014 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
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"...Over the years, Kahlo's look has become as influential as her art, capturing the fancy of trendsetters from Madonna to French designer Jean Paul Gaultier. There are YouTube tutorials on how to braid hair like she wore hers, and Vogue Italy lets readers know where to shop for Kahloesque skirts and jewelry. Now, a full collection from her wardrobe is going on display in Mexico City after being locked away for nearly 50 years in her armoires and dressers..."
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"Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous artists in the world. Her reputation and persona have grown immensely since her death in 1954, yet posthumously she has been turned into a stereotype of Latin American art. This predicament, along with her celebrity status, often overshadows the confrontational and boldly transgressive nature of her paintings, and ultimately undermines the revolutionary intent of her work. [...] In 1978, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presented Kahlo’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Using two of the works included in the original 1978 exhibition, Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo brings her work into a dialogue with contemporary art. The selected artists in this exhibition share Kahlo’s spirit of rebellion and similarly assert themselves against the patriarchy as they insert their voices into dominant artistic discourses. [...]"
Unbound : Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo May 3 - Oct 5, 2014 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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Frida Kahlo est devenue une telle icône qu'elle éclipsa l'oeuvre de son mari, Diego Rivera. Voyage sur ses terres pour saisir la femme derrière la légende.
L’exposition consacrée aux peintres Frida Kahlo et Diego Rivera s’est achevée le mois dernier à l’Orangerie. Le musée parisien l’avait sobrement intitulée « L’art en fusion ». Fusion dans le siècle passé de deux artistes devenus amants – créateurs d’un langage complémentaire hérité de la Révolution mexicaine. Les musées resteront à jamais trop étroits pour le foisonnant Rivera : son œuvre se déploie essentiellement sur son sol natal, décorant à l’envi les bâtiments officiels. Et si celle de Frida Kahlo résonne encore de nos jours, au Mexique comme ailleurs, c’est qu’elle sut, par sa lucide approche du corps et de l’humain, ramasser dans ses autoportraits les dépressions de son siècle. Nous nous sommes rendus sur leurs terres pour tenter d’y voir plus clair, par-delà la légende. ...
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Oops, someone did it again… another feminist icon has been rendered “beautiful” through the magic of Photoshop. Thanks, but no thanks.
This time, Frida Kahlo is the recipient of the unwanted makeover. The Mexican painter is remembered for her unibrow almost as much as her self-portraits, but some blogger saw fit to remove her signature style in favor of something more typically pretty.
The resulting work basically speaks for itself, but, as Color Lines reports, the artist’s explanation for his or her “remastering” is even more offensive: “Really she’s a bit of a wreck. So this got me to thinking. What would have happened if her girlfriends had done the right thing and taken her to a beautician (which clearly needed to happen)?”
After digitally shaving the eyebrows, waxing the upper-lip hair, and lightening the skin… VOILA! Kahlo looks unrecognizable. Is she really “better off” now that she’s just another pretty face?
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L'écrivain Gérard de Cortanze visite l'exposition "Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera, l'art en fusion". Pour lui "le grand nom de la peinture du Mexique, c'est Frida". Elle dépasse aujourd'hui celui qui fut pourtant un grand maître à son époque. L'Exposition est au Musée de l'Orangerie à Paris du 9 octobre au 13 janvier. Gérard de Cortanze, grand amoureux de Frida Kahlo a signé "Frida Kahlo : la Beauté terrible".(Albin Michel), ainsi que la préface du livre de photos "Frida Kahlo" par Gisèle Freund (Albin Michel). Rivera/Kahlo, un couple mythique de l'histoire de l'art, une passion douloureuse, et un divorce esthétique impossible même si leurs deux styles sont différents...
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"The Musée de l'Orangerie is presenting an exhibition devoted to the legendary couple Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). The originality of this exhibition lies in the fact that their works will be presented together, as if to confirm the impossibility of their divorce, finalised in 1938, but reconsidered after just one year apart. It also gives us a better view of their respective artistic worlds, so different and yet so complementary, through the deep-rooted attachment they shared for their country: a cycle of life and death, revolution and religion, realism and mysticism, workers and peasants."
Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera. Art in Fusion Musée national de l'Orangerie, Paris 9 October 2013 - 13 January 2014 http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/
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