LITA CABELLUT, THE EMOTION AND THE JIRONES

Valencia,

The international projection of Lita Cabellut’s work has multiplied in recent years, especially since in 2021 she received the recognition of artist of the year in Holland, where she resides, but this author, born in the Oscense town of Sariñena in 1961 and raised in Barcelona, has about five decades of artistic career: she moved to the Netherlands before twenty Rietveld of Amsterdam, dedicated to the Fine Arts and design, and in this country since then was settled; He has lived and works in The Hague for years. Although painting is its most frequent language, it has also cultivated sculpture, installation, photography, video, performance or graphic work; He has also elaborated scenographies for operas and writes poetry.

If at the beginning of this year, Dama presented, at the Royal Academy of San Fernando, pieces dedicated to visions of the human soul with the Nonsense of Goya as a source of inspiration, now a new sample, in the Bancaja Foundation and curated by Eloy Martínez de la Pera, who was responsible for that exhibition, reflects his work with creators of past times attending to aesthetics and emotional backgrounds.

“Lita Cabellut. Life tearing art”, which intertwines the presentation of approximately twenty paintings, sculptures, facilities, videos and also racks and work remains from their workshop and compiled in showcases, proposes a review of the most common themes in their production: those linked to life and death, passions, identity, creative freedom, power or poverty; while affecting its constant techniques, which pass through the more or less violent application of pigment layers; More than once she has referred to her processes as battles in front of the canvas. The use of black – the king in the assembly – refers in the case of his works to a search for mysticism and rawness.

When reviewing the whole of his career, the approach of this exhibition has allowed the Cabellut to review the canvases that he carried out about two decades ago to sometimes intervene them again to detach from them desire for perfection; This review has to do with the piece that begins the route: a ding vessel that has sparks of her works (fragments that she starts, spider or teal of Rembrandt or, according to the commissioner, Light Muices of Van Dyck. From some compositions of abstract expressionism, he sometimes adopted a living use of color and attention to textures, while he has tried to turn the light games and the emergence of volumes on the funds into part of his language.

A good part of the works that can be seen in which it is the first exhibition of this author in Valencia, from private or institutional collections and their own background, had not been previously shown, including a series dedicated to García Lorca’s text Blood weddings, Herinneringen (2003) or Edvard Munch – Gratende Akt (2021). The sections in which this proposal is articulated respond to those that Cabellut identifies as its drives -the aforementioned life, passion, power, identity and freedom -: of the first affects its transacity, from the non -opposition to death; For the second, it seeks to give mostly its portraits of a torn and emotionally intense character; As for power, it fragiles pointing to the vulnerability of authority figures; Regarding identity, it focuses on internal states that can reveal faces, rather than appearance; and freedom conceives it as an object of exploration by every artist.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with texts by Eloy Martínez de la Pera, X. Antón Castro and Tayfun Belgin and with commented visits.