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September, 2009

Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera in DETROIT 1932

September 14, 2009 Von: Johannes Matthiessen Kategorie: Kunst in Sozialen Brennpunkten Noch keine Kommentare →

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During our Detroit Project, we strongly related our work to the wonderful Murals of Diego Riviera in the Institute for fine Arts in Detroit. Diego was invited by Henry FORD and the Director of the Art Institute 1932 to paint two big wall-paintings (murals) about the beginning of the Detroit motorcar industry. His wife Frida KAHLO stayed with him most of this year in Detroit, but suffered a lot of pain in her body. She lost a baby in the Henry Ford Hospital. It was a very difficult time for both of them. But inspite of many difficulties, Diego and his crew created a fantastic piece of art.

It is probably his best mural ever.

These wall-paintings are so strongly speaking of this  time as the beginning of our modern industrial civilasation, of our “western” world, which is right now rapidly falling apart in Detroit.

Many people in Detroit are so awkened and very creative in finding now alternative ways of living and building for the future.

Detroit for me is the front of evolutionary changes in our current historical time. Go! and joine the people there! It`s really worth while to do so.