Frida Kahlo drew thousands for its closing weekend, and Walker technicians took the show down Monday and Tuesday without an audience. Take a peek at the final patch of work that went into this exhibition.
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I liked Phil Docken’s outfit ( in video) sort of like the old Willie Stargell look with the Pirates after his biceps got too large for his black undershirt. The show was a tipping point between administrations at Walker. A contemporary museum of art can only show so much old stuff unless of course the older material has some resonance for us the living. Kahlo is very complicated , a victim of her body like say Eva Hesse was but that’s what plays now in the age of Britney Spears in the UCLA psyche lock-up - it sells tickets when you can make great art and be struggling with your body’s decline and fall. I love her work and on another level I find it distressing, the faux blood on the frames it’s such a lament for what I might have done what I might have been if not for that nasty bus accident. It’s the late arrival of one of the best moderns albeit in the short form. One wonders what any of us could have done with better luck and good health. But then you play the cards your dealt and Kalho won several hands and made herself a niche in our hearts.
Comment by Frank Gaard — 2/1/2008 @ 11:52 am