25 works for 25 years

Frida Kahlo portrays herself alongside two of her animals, a monkey and a parrot, surrounded by vegetation. Her clothing and hairstyle allude to Mexican traditions and form part of a carefully constructed personal image, where identity, daily life, and painting intertwine.

This fantastical figure gave rise to the Anthropophagic movement, a central part of Brazilian modernism: taking influences from other cultures, transforming them, and creating something of its own. The work thus became a key image for understanding Brazil's cultural identity.

Rivera constructs the writer's portrait in the Cubist style, fragmenting the figure into planes, shapes, and intense colors. Among them appear gestures and objects that speak of his personality and his profession: writing, smoking, collecting, and creating.

Botero's characteristically exaggerated figures populate a family scene that blends sadness and humor. The artist transforms a painful theme—the absence of the mother—into an image where grief coexists with irony regarding family roles.

Before dedicating herself to painting, Alice Rahon was a poet and part of the Surrealist movement in France. Upon settling in Mexico, her contact with pre-Columbian and popular cultures transformed her work and led her to explore new ways of uniting art, imagination, and spirituality.

Varo imagined worlds where art, science, magic, and nature could form part of a single understanding. In this work, music serves as a key to unlocking that hidden order and, in the artist's words, finding "the invisible thread that connects all things."

Lam combined resources from the European avant-garde with elements of Afro-Cuban culture to create his own unique language. The scene evokes a Santería ceremony on a sugarcane plantation, where bodies, spirits, and nature seem to transform into one another.

Berni created Ramona Montiel to explore desire, consumerism, and the inequalities of urban life. His world blends the Buenos Aires slums with images from film, advertising, and mass culture, constructing a critical perspective laden with irony.

Barradas made modern city life one of the central themes of his painting. In this urban scene, people, signs, and architecture overlap in a fragmented rhythm that seeks to convey the movement and energy of the street.

Carrington constructs a fantastical scene where the everyday coexists with impossible creatures and situations. As in much of her work, the visible world seems to be merely a gateway to another universe, permeated by magic, dreams, and transformation.

Diego Rivera's face appears on Kahlo's forehead like a third eye. The image transforms the self-portrait into a scene of intense emotion, where the artist's identity seems intertwined with the complex relationship she had with her husband.

Rivera depicts a popular celebration in Tehuantepec, a region in southern Mexico whose culture sparked great interest among the artists of his time. The traditional dance and clothing become a monumental image of Mexican cultural identity.

A rural community prepares to celebrate the Feast of Saint John, a popular Brazilian tradition. Portinari brings together work, landscape, and celebration in a scene featuring the people who live in the countryside, their houses sprawling across the hillside.

Clark abandoned the idea of ​​sculpture as a fixed form and created objects capable of transformation. Her Bichos are made of articulated metal plates: each movement modifies their shape and proposes a more active relationship between artwork, space, and body.