To honour the 100th Anniversary of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, the Biblioteca de Barcelona has collaborated with the Casa America Catalunya to present a series of lectures about the artist's life and work until the 29th of May.

Art historians, writers, professors and anthropologists will be speaking in libraries across the city.

Impossible to pigeonhole, Kahlo's work incorporated elements of Realism, Surrealism and Symbolism, and along with her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera, she was considered one of the principal artists of the Mexican Renaissance. Her adoption of traditional tehuana dress helped cement her status as an icon of Mexican culture with the Kahlo cult, or Fridamania, stronger than ever today.

Among the lectures are: Kahloisme - a New Religious Movement by Carla Graef; Frida and her Self-Portraits by Erika Bornay and The Europe-America bridge, from Frida to Breton, by José Luis Qunitero. Venues include the Biblioteca Francesca Bonnemaison, Biblioteca Jaume Fuster and the Casa America Catalunya.

Source: whatsonwhen.com

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