VIENNA.- The photographer Tina Modotti,
who was
born in 1896 in Udine, Italy and died in 1942 in Mexico, was one of the
most
fascinating women of the 20th century. She became famous as a result of
the
photographs she created in Mexico in the 1920s and her involvement in
the
revolutionary movements of her time. The exhibition at KUNST HAUS WIEN
offers an
overview of significant areas of her photographic work, which has yet to
receive
the tribute it deserves: her portraits and studies of plants, her images
of the
revolutionary movement of the 1920s in Mexico, her marionette
photographs, her
famous series on the “Women of Tehuantepec”, and a selection of
little-known
vintage prints of photographs that Modotti made of Diego Rivera’s
murals. On
view 1 July through 7 November.