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"Inside the life of Frida Kahlo" at Sala Arsenale in Castel Grande, Bellinzona, Switzerland
21 November 2024 | 26 January 2025The exhibition shows Frida's photographs by Lucienne Block, one of her most loyal and trusted friends.
"I hate you." were the first words that Frida Kahlo said to Lucienne Bloch. The two met at a party hosted by MOMA in New York to celebrate the opening of the significant Diego Rivera retrospective in 1931.
At the time, Rivera was a well-known Mexican muralist, his young wife, Frida, was a little-known artist, and Lucienne was a young artist experimenting with different styles.
At that party, Lucienne and Rivera had spent the entire evening together, primarily discussing the fresco technique, which Lucienne had learned in art schools and during her trip to Italy.
Although the attunement was evident, Frida was unaware that night that Lucienne, in contrast to the other women who gathered around that clumsy husband, would turn out to be one of her most devoted and reliable friends. She would support her through miscarriages, the death of her mother, the revelation of Diego's betrayal of her sister Cristina, and even her first successful solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York.
Lucienne Bloch became Diego Rivera's assistant shortly after their initial encounter in New York because she shared his aesthetic and political beliefs. Both were looking for "an art for the people," something that everyone could use and comprehend.
Art, politics, and love. Frida Kahlo's genuine personality, which only such a close relationship could elicit openly and naturally, is captured in Lucienne's original photographs, which are on display in this one-of-a-kind exhibition.
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