Acciona creates a projection 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 on the way between cinema and the AV show for which Power has used 38 Projectors Panasonic PT-RQ 22K, a control system Crestron and a server Dataton Watchout Inbox 6.

Today the sound and visual sample has been inaugurated Life and Work of Frida Kahlo, produced and promoted by Acciona Cultural Engineering, that has designed an exhibition space of projection with the technology of Panasonic.

It will be exhibited in the Instant Theatre from Madrid to the 1 April 2022 in an exhibition space created ad hoc for this sample. Later he will visit other Spanish cities, European and Asian, Including, Barcelona, Copenhagen and Bangkok.

Life and Work of Frida Kahlo offers the visitor an experience halfway between the cinema, the large-scale audiovisual show and the traditional museum, 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.

To do this, Acciona Ingeniería Cultural has designed an exhibition space in an old bus deer that has 1.129 square meters of HD projection surface (including walls and floors) and 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 by 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 the San Diego Museum of Art, and Deidré Guevara, curator of the exhibition Frida y yo en el Georges Pompidou Museum in Paris.

The objective of Life and Work of Frida Kahlo is to bring to the general public some of the masterpieces of the painter (like his famous self-portraits, The Wounded Deer or the one dedicated to Doctor Eloesser) and others less known (how Dorothy Hale's suicide or What the water gave me), but also contextualize their figure and highlight their resilience and personal strength. To do 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 narration is organized in 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 his 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. last, the third part recreates the Blue House, the home where Frida Kahlo was born, Lived, painted and died.

The creative and production techniques used for the development of 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 handmade sketches. The same, 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 worked musically for the creation of an original soundtrack, by the composer and pianist Arturo Cardelús, nominated for a Goya Award.

In the musical composition, cinematographic techniques have been used with the aim of establishing emotional rhythms and enhancing the visual narrative, making use of a wide variety 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 by the hand of its conductor, Peter Pejtsik.

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