Frida Kahlo
‚Art- Garden- Life‘

New York

‘Frida Kahlo: Art – Garden – Life’ is the first exhibition to explore Kahlo’s love and passion for nature. Based on her numerous self-portraits, it reflects her entire oeuvre.

As the first show on this topic, the New York Botanical Garden recreates the garden and studio of Kahlo in ‚La Casa Azul‘ – a building in Mexico City that was Kahlo’s birthplace as well as her common home with Diego Rivera. Along with this outdoor exhibition, more than a dozen of original pieces are displayed evoking the fundamental inspiration that nature had on the artist. Part of her self-image, with her flowers in the hair, of most of her monkeys-featuring portraits such as the ‘Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird’, the flora converges with the artist. The presentation of her persona is always tinted and pervaded with vegetation just like the cover of Vogue México’s November 2012 issue.

‘Art- Garden- Life’ explores the complex use of plant imagery through Frida Kahlo’s artworks, personal surrounding and personification in an indoor and outdoor setting.

Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940. Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

New York Botanical Garden

May 16 – November 01, 2015

2900 Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10458
USA

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