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The story of a luminous painter

A take on Frida Kahlo's lust for life
This intense love story weaves art, adulation, infidelity, bisexuality, courage, loneliness and most importantly, utter lust for life. All this and more embodied the life of the most luminous painters of the 20th century Frida Kahlo. Her obsessive love for the revolutionary painter, Diego Rivera feeds into her art. Or is it the other way around? My Diego, My Art is Theatre Mi Amors no-holds-barred take on

Frida Kahlo

's lust for life, her uncompromising honesty in art and her effrontery towards a life-threatening accident while mocking even death, like a true-blue Mexican. From being a style icon with native Mexican couture, to celebrating her bisexuality in a conservative society, her quirky inventiveness explores it all. This solo

performance

that reeks of undaunted optimism, unfolding with dollops of Hispanic music, dance and poetry straight from her personal diary is a tribute to the Frida Kahlo, on her 109th birth anniversary.
My Diego, My Art is directed by Ajith Hande, while the performer is

Sindhu Murthy

. The performance is scheduled to take place on July 6 (8 pm) at Humming Tree, Indiranagar.

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