Lita Cabellut: From Street Child to Iconic Painter

Lita Cabellut (1961, Spain) is an artist who lives and works in The Hague (Netherlands), whose work has become a benchmark in contemporary art. As a fully-fledged artist, her creative activity spans multiple disciplines. She not only needs painting to express herself; her creative drive to capture the fragility and strength of the human spirit reaches out and traverses the most diverse techniques and creative fields, from sculpture to photography, from installation art to video art and performance, from illustration to costume design, not excluding opera set design, graphic art, or poetry, all of which are necessary disciplines in her tireless pursuit of emotional connection with the public through art, delving into the depths and dichotomies of the human soul. Her working method is based on reflection and detailed study of the selected motif as the main concept that she later develops in her atelier. The pieces she develops on a large scale combine traditional techniques and modern applications. The characters chosen are the communication channel of the concept. Through these characters that act as interlocutors, the human being, the social message, brutality, selfishness, ignorance, or transcendence are the central themes in her work. Her creative process is visceral and physical, and this is reflected in the texture, gestures, and unvarnished emotional intensity of her large-scale pieces. She considers art a key element for transforming and improving society. At a very early age, she had the opportunity to discover the great masters at the Prado Museum and it was from that moment on that she discovered the transformative power of art and felt, physically and emotionally, the need to express herself through painting, which led her years later to the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. It was in the Netherlands that she developed the enormous inspirational power of the great masters: Her unabashed social commitment was due to Francisco de Goya, the gaze of the characters to Velazquez, she sought the light of Vermeer, the flesh tones of Rubens, the vibrant colours of El Greco, the anguish of Rembrandt’s everyday life, the spirituality of Mark Rothko, the materiality of Anselm Kiefer, the rawness of Francis Bacon, or the conceptualism od Joseph Beuys. Artists who appear and disappear in her creative career and in the series that make up her artistic development. Her works have been exhibited in museums such as the MAC Museum of Contemporary Art (La Coruña), RABASF Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid), Vila Casas Foundation (Barcelona) in Spain; Pivot Centre for Art + Culture (Seattle) in the USA USA; Seoul Arts Center in Korea; Contemporary Art Museum (Sicily) in Italy; CSMVS The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (Mumbai) in India; Hälsingland Museum (Hudiksvall) in Sweden; YUZ Museum (Shanghai), Shanlight Art Museum (Guiyang) in China; the Museum Jan (Amstelveen) or Het Noordbrabants Museum (Den Bosch) in the Netherlands. Her works are included in the permanent collections of several museums such as Museo Goya Colección IberCaja, Zaragoza, Spain; Museo Arte Contemporánea Sicilia, Catania, Italy; The Fendi Collection, Italy; Vila Casas Foundation; Goya Museum; Zuloaga Collection; Omega Capital Group Collection; The Paul van Rensch Foundation; Vila Viniteca Collection; Van de Ende Foundation among others. Mixed media on canvas 250 x 145 cm | 98.4 x 57.1 in Enquire Mixed media on canvas 215 x 415 cm | 84.6 x 57.1 in Enquire Mixed media on canvas 250 x 150 cm | 98.4 x 59.1 in Enquire Mixed media on canvas 215 x 145 cm | 84.6 x 57 in Enquire Mixed media on canvas 250 x 200 cm | 98.4 x 78.7 in Enquire Mixed media on canvas 160 x 130 cm | 63 x 51.2 in Enquire Mixed media on canvas 148 x 118 x 5 cm | 58.3 x 46.5 x 2 in Enquire Mixed media on canvas 150 x 60 x 3 cm | 59.1 x 23.6 x 1.2 in Enquire