Frida - Viva la Vida!
"Long live life!" That was the motto of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954).
"Nothing is more important in life than laughter. Laughter means strength, self-forgetfulness, and lightness. Tragedies, on the other hand, are utterly ridiculous." That was typical of Frida Kahlo. She captivated the great artists and brilliant men and women of her generation: Picasso celebrated her, Breton introduced her to the Parisian art scene and placed her on the pedestal of the surrealists. Trotsky admired in her not only the revolutionary, and Marcel Duchamp, Rockefeller, and Neruda almost worshipped her.
She loved humor and witty remarks. She loved life and pleasure, in spite of, or perhaps because of, her physical sufferings. She painted, made music, wrote poetry, and sang as if she had energy for two lifetimes.
The ensemble approaches the icon Frida Kahlo, with humor and seriousness, using poetic, musical, and theatrical means. They portray the artist sometimes funny, sometimes angry, sometimes melancholic, sometimes combative... Thus, she becomes a catalyst for addressing profound questions of humanity: life, love, freedom, and death.
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
