Frida Kahlo's art and life is subject of immersive Brooklyn exhibit - New York Daily News

Nearly 70 years aft her death, the world’s fascination with Frida Kahlo continues to flourish — generating fashionable civilization conversations successful ways the groundbreaking Mexican creator would apt not adjacent understand.

That includes exhibitions chronicling her beingness and work; an upcoming Broadway philharmonic exploring the artist’s intercontinental career; and adjacent the alleged burning of an estimated $10 cardinal Frida Kahlo drawings arsenic portion of an NFT launch, which has sparked a transgression probe by Mexican authorities.

Now, a caller Brooklyn accumulation described arsenic an “immersive biography” of the creator is giving viewers the accidental to not lone respect Kahlo’s unsocial enactment — but consciousness similar they’re portion of it.

“Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon” (Courtesy of Frida Kahlo Corporation)

“Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon,” which opened Friday astatine the Immersive Pavilion (261 Water St.) successful Dumbo, lets fans acquisition the creation and the symptom of the celebrated magic realist creator done virtual reality, installations, integer art, and projections that reimagine immoderate of the astir applicable moments of her nonrecreational and idiosyncratic life.

The exhibit, which leads visitors connected a 90-minute circuit done 7 interactive rooms with names specified arsenic Living Fragments, The Dream, and Infinite Symbology, is described arsenic a “reactive sensory installation,” is simply a co-creation of the Frida Kahlo Corporation and the Barcelona-headquartered integer arts halfway Layers of Reality.

“Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon” (Courtesy of Frida Kahlo Corporation)

It volition bring unneurotic “art and manner lovers, those inspired by Frida’s connection and journey, past and exertion experts by immersing them successful the galore facets of Frida Kahlo’s unthinkable life,” according to Andres Naftali, proprietor of Primo Entertainment, the Miami-based institution that brought the amusement to the U.S.

The exhibit, which has already traveled done Europe and different North American cities including Phoenix and Montreal, shows Kahlo arsenic “an icon of strength, a unfortunate of love, a genius of creation and a awesome of freedom,” Naftali said.

Not to notation a record-smashing painter. Born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, the iconic creator who spent overmuch of her beingness successful symptom — aft contracting polio arsenic a kid and surviving a devastating autobus mishap astatine 18 — is besides Latin America’s astir collectible artist. Last year, the self-portrait “Diego and I,” from 1949, sold for a record-breaking $34.9 cardinal astatine Sotheby’s successful New York.

Kahlo died successful 1954 astatine property 47.

“Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon” (Courtesy of Frida Kahlo Corporation)

The Brooklyn accumulation isn’t the lone amusement that gave American audiences a one-of-a-kind look astatine the creator known for her self-portraits, bold colors and almighty imagery — arsenic good arsenic her turbulent narration with her husband, chap Mexican creator Diego Rivera, whom she joined twice.

“Mexican Geniuses: A Frida & Diego Immersive Experience” which precocious closed successful London and is presently showing successful Washington, D.C., uses 360-degree “video-mapping technology” to bring Kahlo and Rivera’s top masterpieces to life.

“Frida: Immersive Dream,” which wrapped a circuit done 9 North American cities successful August, focused connected however “she overcame symptom and adversity done self-expressions — turning her beingness into art.” The grounds featured 500,000 cubic feet of art, 1.2 cardinal frames of video, 90 cardinal pixels, arsenic good arsenic immoderate high-profile attendees, including chap icons celebrated pistillate artists Madonna and Christina Aguilera.