New works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Remedios Varo

New works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Remedios Varo in the Third Eye exhibition

Malba announces the arrival of five new works from the private collection of the museum's founder and honorary president, Eduardo F. Costantini, to the Third Eye exhibition, which, since August 2022, brings together more than 220 iconic works of Latin American art in a tour that puts the Malba Collection and that of its founder in dialogue. It is divided into two large conceptual cores: Inhabit and Transform.

The exhibition proposes the display of a collection in transformation that changes shape over time, illuminating key moments of art in the region in dialogue with artistic and social themes, both historical and contemporary.

As a central part of the Third Eye exhibition, a room dedicated to Frida and Diego has been presented since April 2024. Dance in Tehuantepec (1928) by Diego Rivera, one of the most important and largest easel paintings by the famous Mexican artist, and for the first time the lithograph Untitled (The Abortion) (1932) can be seen again in Buenos Aires. by Frida Kahlo never before presented in Argentina, recently acquired by Elina and Eduardo F. Costantini.

The new room in Malba that makes up the Transformar los affections core focuses on the bond and love for the traditions of the isthmus of Tehuantepec of the two artists. Along with these two works, Frida's Self-Portrait with Monkey and Parrot (1949) from the Malba Collection is exhibited along with a series of photographs and historical letters that give an account of their life together, the couple's interests and cultural identity. Mexican during the first half of the 20th century.

Varus remedies. Transform the ritual
In addition, two emblematic works by Remedios Varo are exhibited in Third Eye in a section dedicated to surrealism. These are Armonía (1956), which is presented in Argentina for the first time, and Sympathy (the Cat's Rage) (1955), which could be seen in Constelaciones, the anthological exhibition dedicated to the artist at the museum in 2020. Together with Icono ( 1945) from the Malba Collection, the three works show Varo's great fantastic universe where the human, animal, plant and mechanical world is combined, resulting in a complex and unique visual story.

Varo's three works are accompanied by the photographs of Kati Horna, Oda a la Necrofilia, from the homonymous series (1962), who was his friend and partner in the studio in the ritual practices of magic and occultism, which would be trademarks distinctive features of his artistic production. This group of surrealist women is called Transforming the Rite.

Transform reality
In the adjacent room, a selection of surrealist works by modern artists is presented who sought to disrupt perception until reaching a convulsive beauty that involved chance and allowed one to place oneself outside of rational logic. With the title of Transforming reality, four pieces by the Argentine Juan Battle Planas are exhibited: three versions of Paranoid Radiographs (1936) and Benzolinar (1937). Pieces such as The Disasters of Mysticism (1942) by Roberto Matta - whose Composition (1937) is also exhibited - and Dream of a Man Condemned to Death (1955) by Roberto Aizenberg feed a surreal spatiality through a mystical atmosphere that generates cosmic landscapes. unpredictable. The three paintings by Agustín Lazo: The Examination (1930), Final Judgment or The Theater Mask (1937) and En el Asilo (1930) highlight the presence of the metaphysical condition as an inexhaustible source of styles; while El eros cultural (1980) by Aída Carballo gives an account of the incorporation of sexuality in the imaginary of cultural emancipation.

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