UNTIL SUNDAY 31/8
F. BANCAJA. Pl. Tetouan, 23
It is not the first artist who paints marginal characters, nor the first to "mutila" a canvas for artistic purposes; They are screens more than surpassed in art history for centuries, Por Caravaggio, Manet, Fontana or Tàpies. But nobody challenges, chafa and tear canvases like her. Who, Como Caravaggio, He grew in a very difficult environment before becoming the most sought -after Spanish artist. He has managed to use oil, The graffiti and a modernized fresco technique that is already its personal brand. Artistically adopted by the Netherlands, where he stood with 19 years in search of a style, Lita Cabellut has invented an innovative technique through cracking, which is precisely in fragment. The bars that has been removed from the canvases is piled up in a marmita at the entrance of this sample so you can take a little piece of the painting home.
Cabellut brings to the Bancaja Foundation its first exhibition in Valencia, Lita Cabellut. Life tearing art: 120 works of the last two decades, Some of them never seen in public. As Memories(memories) or the series inspired by blood wedding by Federico García Lorca. Technically, brings together influences from the tradition of Spanish painting of the Golden Age, until abstract expressionism, And it is immediately recognized by its way of using texture and color, mainly red and black. With a fierce brushstroke, Cabellut gives off passion, tear, expressiveness and emotion. Caravaggio's dramatic claroscuros combine with Diego Velázquez's loose brush. The latter reformulated the Portrait of Pope Innocent X of the Sevillian cutting painter so that, hoy, Cabellut evokes it again in the series Trilogy of doubt (2013) that catapulted her to fame. Prominent figures like Frida Khalo pose next to the first planes of marginalized characters that hold the viewer, worthy and challenging. Has turned pain into beauty, Many times hidden in imperfection. The bubbles, Deviations and tears are nothing to hide within these huge canvases that are flowers growing between mud. Life and death, recurring themes expressed through vanitas and skulls, They tell us about desolation and deterioration, of the brevity of the existence and futility of life. So, As far as can happen, Do not miss this first opportunity to enjoy the work of an artist who has managed to sit in the Olympus of international contemporary art combining technical control and the most absolute emotional delivery. S.M.
