The Diplomat in Spain

Fundación Casa de México in Spain announces from 7 May the most eagerly awaited exhibition, Frida Kahlo: wings to fly, showing a selection of 31 original works and 91 photographs by the world’s best-known artist.

The exhibition, which will be open to the public until 30 November, is made up of 31 original works from two private collections, one of them from the Museo Dolores Olmedo. On display are ten of his most famous self-portraits, including: La columna rota, Diego y yo, Autorretrato con changuito, Mi nana y yo, Hospital Henry Ford. In addition to videos and photographs by the renowned Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

The exhibition focuses not only on the complex artistic production of the Mexican painter, but also on the human one. The exhibition explores the biographical context and the intimate part; it invites the viewer to enjoy the aesthetic and to understand the historical moment in which she lived. Throughout the four exhibition rooms, Casa de México offers the public the opportunity to get to know, in greater depth, this Mexican artist who managed to convey themes that are still relevant today: pain, death, the vindication of women, gender violence, relationships, motherhood, the human body, nature, pre-Hispanic heritage and the Mexican. The proceeds from the tickets will be donated to scholarship programmes for Mexican higher education students.