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Coco 48

Posted by Opera Gallery Singapore

14 May, 2020

Coco 48

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Mixed media on canvas
106,3 x 78,7 in (270 x 200 cm)

Born in 1961 to a gipsy family in Aragon, north-east of Spain, Lita Cabellut is a prolific contemporary portraitist. Inspired by the ubiquitous fresco paintings in Barcelona where she moved to when she was only an infant, Cabellut spent four years in classical training and held her first exhibition at the Town Hall of Masnou, Barcelona at the age of seventeen. At 19 she left her native Spain to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was during these formative years that Cabellut was under the influence of Dutch masters whose techniques would define her own works. Cabellut’s unique pictorial language is inspired by Goya, Velasquez and Rembrandt who served as a bridge between classical tradition and contemporary painting. Born a gypsy, her work is closely intertwined with the memories of the old area of Barcelona where bohemians, street performers and vagrants roamed. Through a contemporary variation on the fresco technique, Cabellut’s has developed her own her own personalized ‘Cabellut-palette’, which was created with the help of laboratories and chemists. Cabellut spent five years researching her special mix of media looking to give her portraits the most realistic skin-like quality. The results of her research are portraits filled with intimacy, striking in their size and scale, creating a deep and powerful visual experience. Her canvasses crackle due to her unique technique in paint application resulting in small bubbles effervesce as if the subject is close to emerging into our world from hers. Cabellut’s passionate canvasses melt in the eye as they propel the viewer into a swirling world of sympathy and emotional turmoil for its subjects. Her passion is latent too. When she feels a fury then the viewer feels it too with the intensity from the full source of her passion. Cabellut has held many solo exhibitions around the world from Europe to Asia and America. In 2011, Cabellut was awarded the ‘Premio de Cultura Gitana de Pintura y Artes Plásticas” (Gypsy Culture Award for Paint and Plastic Arts) by “Instituto de Cultura Gitana” (Institute of Gypsy Culture)’ in recognition to the work done in benefit of this culture. Cabellut is now considered one of the most successful Spanish artists in the world.

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