The journalist Rui Tukayana has already visited the exhibition, the guide was Hilda Trujillo Soto, the director of the Frida Kahlo Museum, the "Casa Azul" where the photographs were found . The paintings of Frida Kahlo in Portugal, Hilda Trujillo Soto, the director of the Museum dedicated to the artist, says that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa "your wonderful president" has been in Mexico for two years and "was very interested in bringing Frida's artwork. "
Now, with the passage of Hilda Trujillo Soto for Portugal is the right time to tackle this. According to the museum director, "you have to talk to Carlos Phillips, who owns the biggest collection of Frida's works", which can be completed by "Frida's dresses that are now in London".
But while the pictures and the dresses do not arrive, we can see the pictures
Hilda Trujillo Soto points out that it is the second time that these images are exhibited in Portugal. In fact, it was in Lisbon that they traveled the first time they left Mexico. This time, they will be in Porto, in the Portuguese Photography Center, in the old Chain of Relation, until 4 November.
There are pictures where Frida is the protagonist, but also Diego Rivera, the husband, appears in some or is the author of others. Museum director Frida Kahlo likes to defuse the myths: "They were a couple who complimented each other and even though they said that Diego Rivera was macho, it's not true, he respected her a lot in artistic terms and
"He arrived in Mexico without having anything, not a peso, but in Mexico, he learned to play the guitar," he said. doing so that he became one of the best photographers in the history of the country, mainly as an architectural photographer. "
More than a dozen Self portraits taken by the father of the artist are part of the exhibition. Museum director Frida Kahlo says that in them can be the influence for many paintings of Mexico. An artist who, because of the poses with which she appeared in images and photographs, the British newspaper
The Guardian
nicknamed the first queen of selfies.
And in these portraits, Frida's gaze. No fear. No shame to be like that. "You tell her how in her paintings, Frida stands in front of you and looks into your eyes, and without any fear, without suffering from her physical deformities […] on the contrary, she appears proud, like the proud Tikuanas, In the middle of serious diseases, a father with a particular sense of humor: "I did not like to photograph him, he said that he did not like to photograph ugly people, but that c & # 39; was his game, "says the organizer.exhibition
And when they were not physical pains, it was the lovers who tortured Frida.Hilda Trujillo Soto:" This picture is interesting because & # 39; She is dressed as a man. "After removing her, she cut her hair, and when she found out that Diego had cheated on her sister."
The images show a little the intimacy of the Mexican painter, but also the way the photographs could have other functions. Hilda Trujillo Soto says that in Frida's hands, the photographs were living objects. Lying on the bed, the painter wrote notes, cut his face and slipped it to other places, put on lipstick and kissed the paper. "For her, photography beyond artistic value was also part of her life, and then she kissed, cut, painted, drew, …"
Among the photographs of Diego Rivera visit to the Soviet Union . There are portraits of Stalin and Trotsky, a story that has ended badly. The couple of artists said that he was communist, but Hilda Trujillo Soto has doubts. "They were both communists," they said, "but they were also friends of tycoons like Rockefeller, Henry Ford, or wealthy Mexicans." "It's fair to say that they were radical-chic, caviar on the left." For the curator of the exhibition, Frida and Diego were "happiest alive, artists, than socialist politicians." It was more for style.
In the next room are the harder images of the entire exhibition. Frida on a bed after the accident, wrapped in bandages. The director of the museum insists that behind all this pain there is something else. "The interesting" says "how she can turn pain into artwork" […] I think that's why today's young people identify so much with it because she is a woman who overcame the disease, but never
"She was like she wanted to be"
In total, there are more than two hundred images that belonged to a painter. But paintings by Frida Kahlo Hilda Soto Trujillo "This exhibition has another purpose.This serves to understand, this is an investigation.When we opened the Casa Azul, we had few pictures […] but then we exposed the letters, photographs, etc. At that time, we went from 120,000 to 600,000 a year. "
This is not painting, but the painter.
For the director of the museum dedicated to Mexico, "this exhibition is not intended to show art, but to show who it was, the origins and intimacy of Frida. "
