Veinte mil leguas de viaje persuasivo

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he...

A lo largo de casi medio siglo, Él (1953) ha sido interpretada como paradigma del amour fou surrealista o prototipo de la paranoia y los celos. Una revalorización a la luz de la obra y la personalidad de Buñuel hace de esta película mexicana uno de los hitos de su propia trayectoria en zig-zag.

Antología de escritos que revelan las grandes obsesiones de Dalí y que constituyen un universo peculiar que aparece de manera recurrente a lo largo de toda su vida: el erotismo, la muerte y la podredumbre. En ellos mezcla ideas filosóficas con anécdotas aparentemente irrelevantes, y se ocupa del surrealismo y alguno de sus problemas, como el objeto, el automatismo o el sueño, y de otros temas como la fotografía o el cine.

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a...