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Kahlo Without Borders
Curated by artist, and Frida Kahlo鈥檚 grandniece, Cristina Kahlo, Javier Roque 痴谩锄辩耻别锄 Ju谩rez, and MSU Broad Art Museum executive director M贸nica Ram铆rez-Montagut, Kahlo Without Borders will include photographs and facsimiles from family archives from the Cristina Kahlo collection and from the Oaxaca Museum of Stamp Collecting (Museo de la Filatelia en Oaxaca), and never-before-seen archives from the Medical Center ABC, where Frida Kahlo was interned.
The exhibition seeks to connect museum visitors to the intimate and creative world of Frida Kahlo by blurring the boundaries between her internal and external worlds, particularly towards the end of her life when she was a patient at the Medical Center ABC. Recently revealed documents pertaining to her final hospital stay will be of paramount interest equally to biographers, specialists in the field of art history, and healthcare workers. This unexpected, interdisciplinary (boldly traversing the fields of art and healthcare) yet intimate approach to the worlds of Frida Kahlo will be presented as an emotional journey through images, documents, and family and clinical archives鈥攐ne similar to the poignant and enthralling experience of sorting through a family scrapbook or a trunk of memories. These files bear witness to her health challenges encouraging the visitor to imagine how, from a hospital bed and through the power of creativity and self-expression, she transformed the history of art of the 20th century.
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Curated by artist, and Frida Kahlo鈥檚 grandniece, Cristina Kahlo, Javier Roque 痴谩锄辩耻别锄 Ju谩rez, and MSU Broad Art Museum executive director M贸nica Ram铆rez-Montagut, Kahlo Without Borders will include photographs and facsimiles from family archives from the Cristina Kahlo collection and from the Oaxaca Museum of Stamp Collecting (Museo de la Filatelia en Oaxaca), and never-before-seen archives from the Medical Center ABC, where Frida Kahlo was interned.
The exhibition seeks to connect museum visitors to the intimate and creative world of Frida Kahlo by blurring the boundaries between her internal and external worlds, particularly towards the end of her life when she was a patient at the Medical Center ABC. Recently revealed documents pertaining to her final hospital stay will be of paramount interest equally to biographers, specialists in the field of art history, and healthcare workers. This unexpected, interdisciplinary (boldly traversing the fields of art and healthcare) yet intimate approach to the worlds of Frida Kahlo will be presented as an emotional journey through images, documents, and family and clinical archives鈥攐ne similar to the poignant and enthralling experience of sorting through a family scrapbook or a trunk of memories. These files bear witness to her health challenges encouraging the visitor to imagine how, from a hospital bed and through the power of creativity and self-expression, she transformed the history of art of the 20th century.
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The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University presents Kahlo Without Borders, on view Jan. 15鈥揂ug. 7, 2022.
The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (MSU Broad Art Museum) is proud to present Kahlo Without Borders, on view now through Aug. 7, 2022.
Exhibition of the Mexican artist鈥檚 documents tell of often fraught dealings with doctors and the support she received from friends
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