Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Exhibition in Poland

Several hundred thousand Poles and guests of Poland were able to visit the exhibition "Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Polish context ", held in the Cultural Center" Zamek "in the city of Poznan and ended the day before. The exhibition, started its work in late September last year and was the first exhibition in Poland by Frida Kalo and Diego Rivera.
More than 200 works were presented at the exhibition. Among them - 28 paintings by Frida Kahlo, including "Self-Portrait with a Necklace", "Self-Portrait with Monkeys." Visitors were also able to admire the works of Diego Rivera and, in particular, a photo of Frida Kahlo from Nicholas Muray from the collection of Jacques and Natasha Gelman from Mexico.

The Polish contribution to the exhibition consisted of 70 photographs by Bernice Kolko, Frida's friend, who accompanied her in the last years of her life, and almost 40 works by Fanny Rabel, who belonged to the four closest Kalo students. The curator of the exhibition was Dr. Helga Prignitz-Poda.

The exhibition also featured accounts and documents from the "Exhibition of Mexican Art", which was held in Warsaw in 1955. At that time, the exhibition featured works by Mexican artists from the 16th to the 20th century, including Frida's painting La Mesa Herida.

Press secretary of the Cultural Center "Zamek" in Poznan, Martina Lokuseevska said that no exhibition attracted so many viewers from Poland and abroad and did not cause so many emotions!

The exhibition has also become very popular in the "virtual world" among journalists. Over the past four months, nearly 900 articles have been written, including journalists and bloggers from all over Poland and abroad, including China, Canada, Britain, Germany and Denmark.

The exhibition was held under the honorary patronage of the Embassy of Mexico in Poland.