Tina Modotti. Photographer and Revolutionary

The Centro Cultural Borges presents the exhibition entitled Tina Modotti, Photographer and Revolutionary, centered on an artist who recorded unforgettable images from the first decades of the last Century in México.

The exhibition is organized by the Galerie Bilderwelt in Berlin, and was last exhibited during the month of June of 2010 at the Kunts Haus Wien Museum.

Modotti lived a very interesting life: she was a Hollywood actress, a revolutionary militant in Mexico, an activist against fascism in Italy, a fighter for the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War, an allied of the communist party in Moscow, and died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 46.

Curated by Reinhard Schultz and Blanca Monzón, the exhibition at the Centro Cultural Borges consists of one hundred photographs that contain the most important aspects of Modotti's artistic production, in particular her controversial nudes and her references to the decades that followed the Mexican Revolution, a crucial period in the history of Mexico.

Modotti developed her photographic work during the time she lived in Mexico—between 1923 and 1930—and became the favorite photographer of famous muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. According to Monzón, "Despite the short period of time, her work reached a level that most artists are only able to achieve after an entire life of artistic practice," as she adds, "Her aesthetics had a decisive impact in the landscape of Mexican photography. Just as the paintings by Diego Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros influenced her work. (…) her images are a paradigm of the fusion between the Mexican revolutionary culture and an avant-garde photographic aesthetic."

The exhibition by Tina Modotti will remain open until February 12 of 2013.