Frida Kahlo photo exhibition opened in Budapest

An exhibition of photographs from different periods of the life of the world-famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo opened last Friday in Budapest at the Mai Manó House.

At the press tour of the collection, which is on display for the first time in Hungary, Perla Labarthe Álvarez, director of the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City, said that the exhibition presents 241 previously unpublished photographs that Frida admired, MTI reported. Perla Labarthe Álvarez recalled that after the artist died in 1954, her husband, Diego Rivera, donated their former home in Mexico City, known as the Blue House, to the Mexican people to house a museum dedicated to Frida's life and work. However, most of the artist's belongings - six thousand photographs, a few drawings, letters, medicine, and clothes - were locked away in a bathroom for fifty years.

After the opening of the personal archive in 2003, the exhibition's curator, photographer Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, selected 241 of the photographs found there. Since its launch in Mexico City in 2009, the collection has been seen by nearly one million people in 20 cities.

The exhibition, which is open until January 12, was created by the Frida Kahlo Museum and the Anahuacalli Museum. For more information about the exhibition and related programs, visit the Mai Manó House website.

Source: MTI

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