Acciona creates a screening experience to bring Frida Kahlo's work closer to the general public

Today the exhibition opens in Madrid Life and Work of Frida Kahlo, a sample between cinema and AV spectacle for which Action has used 38 projectors Panasonic PT-RQ 22K, a control system Crestron and a server Dataton Watchout Inbox 6.

Today the sound and visual exhibition was inaugurated Life and Work of Frida Kahlo, produced and promoted by Acciona Cultural Engineering, which has designed a projection exhibition space with the technology of Panasonic.

It will be displayed in the Instant Theater from Madrid to 1 April 2022 in an exhibition space created for this for this sample. Later he will visit other Spanish cities, European and Asian, between them, Barcelona, Copenhagen and Bangkok.

Life and Work of Frida Kahlo offers visitors an experience halfway between cinema, large-scale audiovisual spectacle and traditional museums, that pays tribute to this Mexican painter through more than a hundred plastic works, literary and photographic. Through 2.500 hand-painted animated frames by various artists, the exhibition brings his masterpieces to life.

For this, Acciona Cultural Engineering has designed an exhibition space in an old bus depot that has 1.129 square meters of HD projection surface (including walls and floors) y 38 projectors Panasonic PT-RQ 22K. This infrastructure is managed from a control system Crestron and a server Dataton Watchout Inbox 6. To achieve a complete immersive experience, an audio solution integrated with speakers has been used Beyer and the system Galileo Galaxy of Meyer Sound.

The exhibition has been curated by Roxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo, executive director of San Diego Museum of Art, y Deidre Guevara, curator of the exhibition Frida and I at the Georges Pompidou Museum in Paris.

The objective of Life and Work of Frida Kahlo is to bring some of the painter's masterpieces to the general public. (like his famous self-portraits, The wounded deer or the one dedicated to Doctor Eloesser) and other less known (as The suicide of Dorothy Hale o What the water gave me), but also contextualize his figure and highlight his resilience and personal strength.. For this, The exhibition provides an artistic interpretation of the work and life of Frida Kahlo, inviting the visitor to discover its many facets: as a woman, painter and historical figure.

The narrative is organized into three main themes.. The first part shows the artist in all her splendor, creating a parallel between her work and testimonies of her contemporaries to convey to the public the relevance of the painter in the intellectual and artistic environment of her time..

The second part introduces the visitor to its most intimate facet.. Introduces the Kahlo family, alluding to the roots and friendships of the artist, and delves into a key event in its history, the traumatic accident that made her reborn as a painter. Finally, the third part recreates the Blue House, the home where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, he painted and died.

The creative and production techniques used to develop the audiovisual piece have sought the best way to reproduce and reinterpret the artist's pictorial style.. In this sense, A graphic investigation of his painting has been carried out in order to give life to elements and characters of his work from numerous hand-made sketches. Also, to recreate environments and contextualize events in your life, illustrations have been created that mix photos, drawings and collages, in a symbolic and surreal interpretation of Frida's world.

In parallel, Each scene has been musically worked on to create an original soundtrack, by the composer and pianist Arturo Cardelús, nominated for a Goya award.

In musical composition, cinematographic techniques have been used with the aim of establishing emotional rhythms and enhancing the visual narrative., making use of a great diversity of instruments and sound effects, that have been combined with traditional European and Mexican music, in clear reference to the origins of the artist. The soundtrack has been recorded with the Budapest Art Orchestra from the hand of his orchestra director, Peter Pejtsik.