Russia's first large-scale retrospective of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo will take place from 3 February to 30 April in the Faberge Museum

the fabergé Museum, February 3 — on 30 April 2016
St-Петербург, Fontanka river embankment, 21

In St-Петербурге in the fabergé Museum 3 February 2016 will open Russia's first large-scale retrospective of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Within the extensive exhibition will feature 34 works of Frida — paintings, drawings, lithography, among them early works and the later works of the period, which will allow to trace the stylistic evolution of the master. Will complete the event more than one hundred photographs covering different periods of the life of Frida Kahlo, Mexican folk costumes, such as those that loved to wear the artist herself.

The Exhibition "Frida Kahlo. Paintings and drawings from the collections of Mexico" — event of international significance. In the Faberge Museum will be represented in almost all the works of the artist available today for exhibiting outside her native country. Among them — famous paintings, without which it is impossible to imagine the history of twentieth-century art: "the Broken column" — most famous painting of Frida Kahlo, a composite physical and mental suffering, the work that crystallized her unique style; "Portrait of Dona Rosita Morillo", which the artist considered one of his best works; "Hospital Henry Ford" — candid huge picture of their own tragedy, revolutionary for Catholic Patriarchal country and for art until 1970-х.

Hard to believe that Frida Kahlo, whose name is forever inscribed in the history of art, has not received systematic art education, and its first appeal to the creativity of an accidental nature. For a long time after a severe accident (1925) she was bedridden, and to entertain and support the daughter, the father has built for her a frame for the drawing and fastened to the bed a mirror. The first work of Frida was self-portrait. In future, this genre became the principal in her work. Frida Kahlo was closely associated with cultural and political processes of Mexico, however, neither broad-minded nor knowledge about the art of other eras, nor involvement in political life of the country practically did not affect the subjects of her works: the main characters from picture to picture was Frida herself, her family and friends.

self-Portraits and small family portraits — is most typical for the works of artists XVIII — first half of the twentieth century. For decades, women have been denied the opportunity to receive professional artistic education on a par with men, they studied at home and as models draw their families or themselves. However, the work of Frida Kahlo, full of symbols and hidden meanings, but no lose Frank forever changed the genre. A place of solemn representations with the attributes of a profession — brushes and paints — took the stories of the physical pain, the tragic events of life, the burden that he carried. For the first half of the twentieth century this approach was-настоящему revolutionary.

Despite the international recognition given to the artist in Russia until now there was not a single large-scale retrospective. The exhibits for the exhibition "Frida Kahlo. Paintings and drawings from the collections of Mexico" provided from the collections of the Museum of Dolores Olmedo, the Arvil gallery and the private collection of Juan Coronel Rivera, grandson of Diego Rivera. The exhibition will last for three months, from 3 February to 30 April 2016, in the fabergé Museum in Saint-Петербурге.

the curator of the exhibition — PhD, Deputy head of the Department of contemporary art at the State Hermitage Museum Ekaterina V. Lopatina.

the exhibition is an illustrated catalog. The Exhibition "Frida Kahlo. Paintings and drawings from the collections of Mexico" recommended for visitors 18 years of age. Exhibition of works in accordance with the schedule of work of the fabergé Museum. The fabergé Museum is open from 10:00 to 20:45, daily except Friday, at St.-Петербург, the Fontanka river embankment, 21. www.fabergemuseum.ru

Tickets for the exhibition will soon be on sale at the box office and on the website of Faberge Museum

Source: fabergemuseum.ru