Genoa, Italy.- With a resounding success closed Sunday February 8 sample Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the Palazzo Ducale, this Italian city where 120 paintings, drawings and photographs gathered for the first time two of the painters more Mexico representative of the twentieth century, which received just over 130,000 visits in a city of about 700,000 people
In an interview, the curator Helga Prignitz Poda said that «exposure-which was mounted the September 20, 2014 to February 8, 2015– was an impressive display. The place was perfect and sunny days allowed the beauty and splendor of the Palazzo Ducale received a crowd of visitors, who formed impressive rows «.
The exhibition of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, Italy, is part of the actions taken by the Conaculta, according to the guidelines of work established by its president, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, to strengthen the presence of Mexico in the world through their art and culture
The sample was composed of 120 works, and included paintings of Frida Kahlo, Diego and in my mind or Self Portrait on a sun flower (painted a few days before his death in July 1954). In addition to showcasing the plaster corset that Frida used for part of his life, as well as paintings on their abortion.
Diego Rivera, the exhibit included oil paintings, as his Portrait of Natasha Gelman, Portrait of Oaxacan women and two notebooks with sketches, which had not been exhibited and developed during his youthful trip to Italy.
The exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale was organized by the Palazzo Ducalle Demonstrate Mondo Foundation for Culture and Skira. The curator Helga Prignitz Pruning Specialist sought to show the ties that bound them both so deeply different artists, in addition to revealing the technical and thematic evcoluión of his work.
In turn, the curator Helga Prignitz Poda commented that «the Palazzo Ducale must say that is much more than a museum, it is the main cultural center of Genoa. Here are festivals of theater, poetry, dance. It is a center full of life and the fact that Frida and Diego have been exhibited in this place has generated much interest in the population.
«From an architectural point of view, the Palazzo Ducale is a building with great inner beauty, just talk about their ceilings with baroque decoration that somehow dialogue and contrasted with the work of Diego Rivera. It is a meeting point between two cultures, «said the curator of the exhibition that concluded yesterday.
Note that after the success of the exhibition of Frida Kahlo in Rome, where 332,000 people attended the Scuderie Museum Quirinale, the work of the artist born in Coyoacán was accompanied by paintings of her husband, Diego Rivera, considered one of the three great Mexican muralists.
The exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale was organized by the Palazzo Ducale for Culture, MondoMostre and Skira Foundation, with support from the National Council for Culture and Arts. The curator was in charge of the specialist Helga Prignitz-Poda, in collaboration with Christina Kahlo (Frida niece) and Juan Coronel Rivera (nephew Diego).
