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"Frida Kahlo: Timeless" at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Chicago - USA
05 June 2021 | 12 September 2021On April 16, 2020 “Frida Kahlo 2020” was rescheduled to Jun.5 -Sept. 12, 2021, retitled "Frida Kahlo: Timeless", in the light of the impact of COVID-19.
"Frida Kahlo: Timeless" - the largest Frida Kahlo exhibition in Chicago from over the past 40 years - will be on view at Cleve Carney Museum of Art, the lobby of McAnich Arts Center and Belushi Performance Hall.
The exhibition will present 26 original works by Kahlo on loan from the Museo Dolores Olmedo in Mexico City, featuring a selection of oil paintings and works on paper that span the artist’s life.
Alongside the 26-piece collection it is an immersive exhibition that features a multimedia timeline of the artist’s life, a video presentation, reproductions of Kahlo’s clothing and a “poetry garden” designed by Ball Horticultural Company. These historical exhibits allow viewers to understand Kahlo’s life and artwork through a variety of different contexts, providing a framework of the personal events and circumstances that led Kahlo to become one of the most significant painters of the 20th century and our time.
Click here for the Museum press release.
Read here an interesting article by The Chicago Tribune.
Click the link below for the Musuem website.
