JAZZ Lita Cabellut Painter

Lita Cabellut (born 1961 in Barcelona) is a Spanish painter who lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands. Cabellut works on large scale canvases using a contemporary variation of the fresco technique. Working on large-scale canvases, Spanish artist Lita Cabellut has developed a contemporary variation of the classic fresco technique and a recognizable personal palette style that comes from her obsession to provide her characters with a skin. However, beyond her most recognized works and techniques Cabellut is a multi-disciplinary artist whose works also include pieces such as: oil on canvas, drawings on paper sculptures, photography, poetry, visual poems and videos. Lita Cabellut's work is grouped conceptually in collections or series of paintings. The collection “Frida, The Black Pearl” (2010) pays tribute to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, in which Cabellut depicts Kahlo’s life while including many of her own experiences. This series inspired Cabellut to create “Coco, The Testimony of Black and White” (2011), a collection that portrays this fashion icon through 35 large-scale portraits. “A Portrait of Human knowledge” (2012) continues Cabellut’s previous work with portraits of some of the most influential icons of knowledge from the past 150 years, including Stravinsky, Nureyev, Marie Curie, Billy Holiday, Federico Garcia Lorca, Rudolf Steiner and Sigmund Freud. With “The Trilogy of the Doubt”, a collection composed by socially inspired triptych paintings about power, injustice and ignorance, Cabellut received attention both in her native Spain in The Netherlands. The portrait collection “Dried Tear” (2013) expresses Cabellut’s fascination and admiration for the Asian culture. Cabellut’s series about the Dutch Golden Age entitled “The Black Tulip” (2014) was inspired by one of the most famous national symbols of the Netherlands. For her latest collection “Blind Mirror” (2015), Cabellut explored culture and religion, focusing on some of the most influential religions that have been known to humanity. Since her first exhibition at the Town Hall of Masnou, Barcelona, in 1978, Cabellut's work has been exhibited all around the world, including New York, Dubai, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong, Barcelona, London, Paris, Venice, Monaco and Seoul. Some of her other solo museum exhibitions to note include: “Trilogy of the Doubt” (2013) at Fundación Vilacasas in Barcelona, Spain and Het NoordBrabants Museum in Den Bosch, The Netherlands; “Here to Stay” (2014), at Kunststation Kleinsassen in Berlin, Germany; “100 Masterpieces” (2014) at Seoul Art Centre in Seoul, South Korea; “Black Tulip” in State Visit Okura Hotel in Tokyo (2014), Japan; and “Blind Mirror” (2015) at Hälsingland Museum in Hudiksvall, Sweden.