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Press Portfolio2016 WINTER
LITA CABELLUT
Lita in the International Press
VIDEO INTERVIEWS
Kenau, Dutch TV sender AVRO, Kunstuur (Art Hour)16 March 2014View Here
TV Coverage, South Korean TV sender MBN30 June 2014View Here
News Coverage, South Korean TV sender KTV15 July 2014View Here
The Black Tulip - CSMVS and Lalit Kala Academy India27 May 2015View Here
Interview Pauw & Witteman Talk Show, Dutch TV sender VARA/NPS 8 November 2011View Here
TV Coverage Noordbrabant Museum, Dutch TV sender Omroep Brabant30 August 2013View Here
TV Coverage, French TV AFP news agency 28 April 2011View Here
TV show La Movida Cultural (The Cultural Move), BBC Mundo 19 October 2012View Here
VIDEO INTERVIEWS
Interview, Spanish TV sender RTVE 11 June 2013View Here
Holland Meets Mumbai 2015 Promotion add - The Black Tulip CSMVS and Lalit Kala Academy India16 May 2015View Here
Interview from Prado Museum,Antena 3 Noticias30 January 2016View Here
Interview, La Ventana, Cadena SER28 October 2015Click Here
Interview, Graffiti, Radio Euskadi13 November 2015Click here
Interview, Esto me suena, RNE29 October 2015Click Here
RADIO INTERVIEWS
Interview, RNE 3, Hoy Empieza Todo con Marta Echeverrria.10 December 2015Click Here
Straatnieuws The Hague / Rotterdam February 2016
“Lita Cabellut: Some rooms stay closed”
LXRYFebruary 2016
“ I am proof of the good intentions of others”
The Stranger , USADecember 2015
El Mundo newspaper, Spain 5 February 2016
“3 Spanish artists among the 500 most valued of the contemporary art market.”
Deco Adiccion ABC 25 January 201616
“4. First posibility of the year to see Giacometti, Warhol, Jan Fabre, Wesselmann, Lita Cabellut, Vasarely or painters of the COBRA group”
9 reasons to go to BRAFA
Suplement V. 12 regional newspapers Vocento group, Spain15 November 2015
«España me debe un beso»
Las ‘celebrities’ se rifan sus cuadros, por los que se pagan hasta 140.000 euros. Lita Cabellut, la pintora española más cotizada del mundo, es una desconocida en nuestro país. «No lo entiendo», confiesa esta gitana, abandonada por su madre prostituta con tres meses: «Yo soy la prueba de que todo puede cambiar»
Clientes vip Hugh Jackman o Halle Berry, entre otros ac-tores, son fer-vientes admira-dores (y buenos clientes) de Lita Cabellut. El chef Gordon Ramsay es uno de los princi-pales coleccio-nistas de su obra.
EN CARTERA
De Camarón a Bach Pidió ayuda a Camarón de la Isla «entre lágrimas» para pintar la serie sobre el can-taor que expuso en Berlín. Camarón suena a todo trapo en su estudio, además de Bach «y raperos varios».
«No soy ‘hombreriega’» Madre de tres hijos de dos padres diferentes, no está ca-sada: «No soy ’hombreriega’. Me gustan los hombres, pero les asusto».
¿Cataluña independiente? «Los artistas debemos tener un alma universal, las fronte-ras son para nosotros los peores enemigos. Eso está muy lejos de mí».
2017 Hasta ese año no expondrá en España Cabellut. Lo hará de la mano de la Fundación Antoni Vila Casas, que tam-bién apostó por ella en 2013.
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“A compliment of a stranger never gets to you, as the one given by the child of your neigh-borhood. Being recognized at home kisses the soul.”
El Confidencial, Spain28 October 2015
“Cabellut, the indigent who became the national female artist, highest listed in the world.”
Cafe Babel, Spain4 June 2015
“Being a gypsy has influenced my art. I have other windows, other landscapes, a range of colors and trapezes at sea. Gypsies are different, we come from afar, have walked in many lands and have many influences that even we ourselves are not aware of and, occasionally, that memory that the body and mind have makes you react, think, feel a way that we would say that’s very gypsy.”
Streifzug Immobilien Magazine, GermanySpring 2015
“Lita’s art at the opening of Hafencity Hamburg’s new gallery”
Hamburger Abendblatt Newspaper, Germany16 January 2015
“These images, in all their limitless ecstatic strength, are for posterity. A must see.”
Kunst Hamburg Magazine, GermanySummer 2015
“Lita Cabellut’s paintings are great, large format - and now so popular internationally that they barely manage to hang on the gallery wall, because they are usually sold beforehand.”
Osthessen News, Germany10 June 2014
“Akathe te beshen - here to stayRemarkable exhibition of contemporary art in Roma-art station”
“Lita Cabellut, The Hague. On large-scale canvases and often in expressive gesture, it shows humans free from labels.”
Hafencity Zeitung, Germany11 January 2015
“How to Vernissage”
Der Freitag Newspaper, Germany31 October 2012
“We are Super Stars”
Joods Geloof Magazine, The NetherlandsFebruary 2013
“Fragile and strong at the same time, there she stood on the back of the Hanukkah edition, Anne Frank, as Lita Cabellut painted her. The Catalan painter talks about her work, about her reason to
give Anne Frank such a prominent place, and about her project.”
El Mundo Newspaper, Spain4 July 2011
“Physical form is not important, I am interested in people’s souls.”
Periodismo Humano, Spain6 November 2011
“The Gypsies of Lita Cabellut”
Das Sonntaz Newspaper, Germany14-15 May 2011
“I should be born again”
Ultima Hora Ibiza Newspaper, Spain26 June 2011
“Lita Cabellut, the portraitist of souls”
Impulse (2015) International Press Coverage
Cabellut’s work, mostley paintings but also film-makinh and photography, is as dramatic as her person”
Baku Magazine, UKAutumn 2015
Arts End of Nowhere 4 September 2015
‘‘We are living in a society that fears its adoration in contemporary art, yet intimidates its women into accepting it as their highest value.‘‘
The Wallstreet International, UKSeptember 2015
Hi Fructose, UK29 Augustius 2015
Blind Mirror (2015) International Press Coverage
‘‘We stand in the field of force between all of these strong paitings and their statement about the world.”
Balder, SwedenSeptember 2015
‘‘What do you believe”
P4 Gavleborg Radio, Sweden25 April 2015
“Large religious art displayed in Hudiksvall”
Arbetarbladet Newspaper, Sweden28 April 2015
“A superstar’s attack right on target”
Hudiksvalls Tidning Newspaper, Sweden23 January 2015
“Hudiksvall first in Sweden to welcome Lita Cabellut”
Halsinglands Museum, SwedenMarch 2015
“For the first time in Sweden - Lita Cabellut,This year’s event at the Museum of Hälsingland!”
Coral Flowers (2015)International Press Coverage
Art Actuel, FranceNo. 98 / May-June 2015
“Lita’s paintings combine subtle classical traditions and contemporary style [her] paintings [...] can be admired throughout the world, especially in the former Prince of Wales Museum in Bombay, Fundació Vila Casas in Barcelona, Hälsinglands Museum in Sweden, but also in Hamburg, Seoul and many large international art fairs.”
Art Actuel, FranceNo. 98 / May-June 2015
Cover featuring Coral Flower 02, 200x180 cm, 2015
The Black Tulip (2014)International Press Coverage
Amstelveenweb, The Netherlands22 September 2015
‘‘Lita Cabellut’s Black Tulip exhibition next to Niki de Saint Phalle in Jan van der Togt Museum.”
The Statesman, India24 September 2015
“With the Black Tulip show, inspired by the Dutch masters and famous philosophers of the Golden Age, Cabellut establishes a profound symbiosis between the classsical portret art and the modern techniques.”
Verve Magazine, India12 June 2015
“The portrait is the way to get close to humanity”
Vogue, India16 June 2015
“Stepping out of their frame and into your world”
CSMVS Museum, IndiaJune 2015
“Once again Cabellut establishes an even more profound symbiosis between the classical por-trait art and the modern techniques in this series. In big portraits of Calvinists, Puritans, Protes-tants and Catholics the differences in attitude, clothing and expression of vision on the world are shown in a very subtle, yet clear way. The everlasting search for the perfect Black Tulip not only expresses the sophisticated character of the Dutch merchandise spirit, but also the search for the perfection in light and colour in art.”
Live Mint, India11 June 2015
“To me, the Black Tulip symbolizes the Dutch people’s mercantile spirit. They succeeded in turning something as transitory, vulnerable and impredictable as the tulip into something of value.”
The Telegraph, India6 June 2015
“The Netherlands Prime Minister, Mr. Mark Rutte, opens an exposition of paintings by Dutch artis Lita Cabellut inspired by the Dutch Golden Age.”
LLEI D’ART Magazine, SpainNr. 13, Spring 2015
“In her search for the drama of human suffering, Lita Cabellut focusses on portraiture. Her gestural contribution de-contextualises the surface of the faces that move her, but she also shifts them to her own intimate and personal territory. The symbolism of the intense back-ground colour, the exaggerated expression and the disfiguration are the character’s ‘screams’ of pleasure or pain. She manages to imprint reality, which hides behind the layers of pictorial language and transmit the theatricality of the person depicted.”
Palette Magazine, The NetherlandsFebruary/March 2015
“The portraits in the series’ The Black Tulip of unprecedented accuracy. The glance, the hands, mouths, all the details are a tribute to the craftsmanship that could reach the compa-nionship of her masters only by constant practice. It is this perfection of physiognomy and anatomy of the light in the folds of the robes, of white accents in lace collars, that mislead the viewer. The appearance that Cabellut’s “masterpiece” is presented to her masters as if it were an aptitude test.”
“Mankind in all its strength and doubt”
Vogue online, India3 June 2015
“Dutch-based artist Lita Cabellut’s exhibition ‘The Black Tulip’ - her first in India - named after the 18th centruy rare flower features a series of portraits that celebrate the Dutch Golden Age. The exhibition opens at Mumbai’s CSMVS museum this weekend and travels to Delhi in September.”
Wallstreet International, Montenegro21 November 2014
Emarat Al Youm.com, Dubai3 February 2015
“Lita Cabellut’s [...] exhibition of «The Black Tulip» this year, in both New Delhi and Mumbai, is in celebration of trade relations between the Netherlands and India.”
Starcatcher (2014)International Press Coverage
iMagazine.com, South KoreaJune 2014
“At this solo exhibition, Cabellut collaborated with one of Korea’s top designers, Lie Sang Bong to create a dramatic synergy between fashion and art.”
“Opera Gallery Seoul Presents Lita Cabellut’s Solo Exhibition”Lie Sang Bong and Lita Cabellut’s artistic collaboration
“pursuit of one’s aesthetic sublimation”.”
wowtv.co.kr, South Korea12 May 2014
Magazine ART, South KoreaMay 2014
“Skillfully reflecting human emotion through the mere strokes of paint on canvas, Cabellut portrays the deepest layers of whoever she chooses to anoint. Immense detail and time spent on each piece mean she succeeds in capturing the very “souls of humanity”.”
CEO News Magazine, South KoreaJune 2014
“For her first solo exhibition in Seoul, Lita Cabellut chose to deliver her message symbolically through the historic figures who exemplify the power that transforms dust into absolute beauty.”
Public Art Magazine, South KoreaMay 2014
“Gazing at the characters in Cabellut’s works, we discover a piece of ourselves. Poverty and beauty, happiness and sadness, are some paradoxical and incompatible ideas that Cabellut juxtaposes onto the canvas through faith.”
Dried Tear (2013)International Press Coverage
Financial Times, How to Spend It Magazine, UK25 April 2014
“The last thing I bought and loved was a painting by Lita Cabellut, a Barcelona-born artist who is inspired by Spanish and Dutch Old Masters and uses a unique variation on the fresco technique. I have eight of her works; at 2m x 2.85m, this one is a major piece - I have no idea where we are going to put it.”
The Southeast Review, USAVolume 33.2, Autumn 2014
Cover featuring Dried Tear 06, 280x200 cm, 2013.Publication featured other Dried Tear pieces and poems by Lita Cabellut.
InfoMag, SpainDecember 2013
“The series Dried Tears is shown in Singapore. In this series Cabellut explores the cross over between East and West. The work was inspired by her collection of Asian antique art.”
Prestige, Singapore5 December 2013
“A self-professed admirer of all the greats, Cabellut has been said to borrow her artistic style from the light of Rembrandt and Vermeer, the brush strokes of Frans Hals, the bravery of Goya and the sincerity of Francis Bacon.”
L’Officiel, SingaporeOctober 2013
Tableau Fine Arts Magazine, The NetherlandsNovember 2013
“Living: to be able to feel sadness and see beauty”
“The series Dried Tears refers to the pain and grief caused by Oriental imposed (beauty) ideals and ambitions and forced submission. This suffering is endured in silence, the tear is dried and carried in a silent protest.”
Esquire, Singapore24 October 2013
“In her work, physiognomy collides with the mask of theatre, creating a multi-layered narrative to be unravelled at leisure.”
zaobao.com.sg, Singapore31 October 2013
“The exhibition “Dried Tear” brings the artist’s interpretation of Asian paintings. Portrait works in dazzling color, flying lines. People dressed in traditional costume, but with the full sense of the current times. Rita said that each piece is external and inner dialogue, represen-tation and introspection, between artist and viewer.”
Malaysia Art Gallery Guide, Malaysia and SingaporeMarch/April 2013
“The line-up will feature works by some of history’s most renowned artists, including Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Claude Monet. Exhibited alongside these master heavy-
weights will be some of this generation’s greats such as Julien Opie’s minimalist figures, Lita Cabellut’s stunning portraits and Pierre Matter’s intricate creations.”
“Opera Gallery 20th Anniversary”
The Business Times Executive Lifestyle, SingaporeOctober 2013
Trilogy of the Doubt (2013)International Press Coverage
Villa d’Arte Magazine, The NetherlandsAugust/September 2013
“The intensity of her work gives the viewer the opportunity to meet another dimension of their infinite power”
Algemeen Dagblad Newspaper, The Netherlands22 October 2013
“Lita Cabellut, with currently a large exposition at the Noordbrabants Museum, is a fast-rising star in the art world.”
Omroep Brabant News, The Netherlands30 August 2013
“Noordbrabants Museum shows Lita Cabellut’s triptychs”
Trouw Newspaper, The Netherlands30 August 2013
“Today I was afraid of a woman. The employee of the museum was asking if I wanted to interview her, but I politely declined because her paintings were so overwhelming and pronounced that I feared her explanation. And her look.”
El País Newspaper, Spain9 May 2013
“Lita Cabellut exposes paintings and drawings at Espai VolArt”
La Vanguardia Newspaper, Spain9 June 2013
“Fundació Vila Casas receives, until July 21st, The Trilogy of the Doubt, a collection of 33 faces that talk about life’s duality and relativity, power, fear, ignorance and injustice, tears and laughter with a marked social background that can be expected of an artist that is in constant contact of the reality that surrounds her.”
Que.es, SpainMay 2013
“Artist Lita Cabellut comes back to Spain with Trilogy of the Doubt”
ABC Barcelona Newspaper, Spain9 May 2013
“Lita Cabellut debuts in Spain with her triptychs over life and death.”
After the Show (2012)International Press Coverage
Economic Journal, China20 March 2013
“Lita goes against traditional art and is rebellious and bold in her paintings. Her paintings are as beautiful as Rembrandt’s and have the courageous feeling of Goya’s. Her paintings
take after Vermeer’s pefectionism and Francis Bacon’s purity.”
Oriental Daily News, China27 March 2013
“With every single portrait [Lita] shares her views on the world. Behind every character she paints you see the story of life, the will to live and the search for love.”
Milk Magazine, China14 March 2013
“She is a Storyteller!”
The Sun Newspaper, China19 March 2013
“Every single portrait that Lita makes is inspiring and strikes you in the heart.”
artinasia.com, ChinaMarch 2013
“Cabellut is a fascinating artist, successful in conveying human emotions through her por-traits, while giving a unique depth to her characters.”
Hong Kong Tatler, ChinaFebruary 2013
“Cabellut’s exhibition is unveiled on March 7 at Opera Gallery to coincide with the gallery’s new flagship opening.”
Portrait of Human Knowledge (2012)International Press Coverage
1883 Magazine, United KingdomOctober 2012
“After less than a year, Lita returns to London Opera Gallery with a highly captivating series of paintings titled A Portrait of Human knowledge, depicting some of the most influential
icons of knowledge from the past 150 years.”
Schon! Magazine, GermanyOctober 2012
“Celebrated Spanish artist Lita Cabellut returns to the Opera Gallery this month for her second London show. Cabellut’s latest exhibition, A Portrait of Human Knowledge, depicts the most ‘influential icons of knowledge’, from Stravinsky, Nureyev, Marie Curie, Billy Holiday, Garcia Lorca, Rudolf Steiner to Sigmund Freud.”
Review of Modern Art Blog, Greece23 October 2012
“Depicted with a distinct style that encompasses a colourful palette, an old masterish feel and an expressionistic mood, Cabellut’s monumental images appear to be on a constant
need for an open dialogue with the viewer.”
Elegance Magazine, The NetherlandsJune 2012
“Worldwide success. The Spanish artist Lita Cabellut is world renown with her gigantic, theatrical portraits.
“I am inspired by the fragility of people.”
ViewLondon.co.uk, United KingdomOctober 2012
“Those who attend the Lita Cabellut exhibition London can expect to see portraits of influential icons. Painted in Cabellut’s unique style, the exhibition will be a great opportunity to see the
Spanish sensation’s latest work as she showcases how it is possible to portray human emotion through her strokes on the canvas.”
Comparethefinancialmarkets.com, United KingdomOctober 2012
“Investors love Lita Cabellut’s Art”
“The preview night, one of the most successful exhibition previews of the year for Opera Gallery.”
Memories Wrapped in Gold Paper (2012)International Press Coverage
Hello! Magazine, Middle East26 May 2012
“Memories are traditions and by wrapping them in gold paper, traditions are treasured. It’s about saying we need to protect our history.”
AhlulBayt News Agency, Dubai UAE11 August 2012
“When you see the portraits I make, women with the veil have a lot of character behind it, you still can be a mother, a woman who fights for her family, and still have tradition and its dignity, this is what I want to show.”
Al Khaleej Newspaper, Dubai UAE13 May 2012
“Cabellut considers the veil as an aesthetic state reflecting elegance, and part of the human history. These elements encouraged Cabellut to shift from the veil to the boundaries of the
canvas. Cabellut is seeking to let the theme of the veil have an impact on her paintings.”
The Gulf Today, Dubai UAE16 May 2012
“In Dubai, she is showing a series of portraits of women. The women are mostly veiled, with the expressions showing a range of emotions expressing hurt, anguish, wariness, alertness, arrogance, defiance, determination and triumph.”
City Times Newspaper, Dubai UAE6 May 2012
“Lita’s current series of human-faced paintings, capture her search for subjects that have a special character or aura.”
Emarat Al Youm Newspaper, Dubai UAE9 May 2012
“At her art exhibition in Dubai, the Spanish painter, Lita Cabellut, reveals the hidden beauty of the East, while continuing to explore the inner world of woman, exposing the soul, and adding a special charm to the faces which are already reflecting a lot of meaning.”
Coco, The Testimony of Black and White (2011)International Press Coverage
Femme Magazine, FranceNovember 2011
“Lita Cabellut presents at the Opera Gallery, two steps away from the Place Vendome in Paris, 35 portraits of gigantic proportions of the great lady of couture, Coco Chanel.”
Optiek & Mode Magazine, The NetherlandsSummer 2012
“Work of Spanish artist Lita Cabellut generates international interest”
Poets and Artists Magazine, USAOctober 2011
“It is difficult to imagine any other artist with as much access to the emotional life of Coco Chanel as Lita Cabellut.”
Emarat Al Youm Newspaper, Dubai UAE28 November 2011
“The 35 portraits exhibited interpret the mysterious life of Coco Chanel, unveiling her complex and, at the same time, shiny spirit. In the words of Lita: “Chanel did not use the colors black and white by accident, it resulted from her life experience with those two colors representing a victory over poverty and tragedy.””
El Universal Newspaper, Mexico13 October 2011
“From Coco Chanel [Lita] stays with the ‘really positive part of life’ part. ‘She was a very brave woman. She dared to change the image of women, to free their spirit, to confront men, to see women not only as a inanimated object. She was a woman who did a lot for
women’.”
Vanitatis Online Magazine, Spain14 October 2011
“Through a serie of 35 large format portraits, Lita Cabellut has liberated the icon from the glamour stereotype, in the same way Coco Chanel changed the world taking feminine fashion outside the limits of the corset in the 20s.”
1883 Magazine, USAIssue 5, 2011
“Jean-David Malat, Director of the Opera Gallery in London selects his most defining art-works of the year: nr. 3, Portrait of Coco Chanel by Lita Cabellut.”
La Vanguardia Newspaper, Spain28 September 2011
The Black Pearl (2010)International Press Coverage
Re:View Online Magazine, UK21 March 2011
Schon! Magazine, GermanyIssue 12, 2011
“Lita Cabellut’s work has transcended from the obvious portrayal of art to the outer regions, of controversial amazement. With her latest exhibited piece ‘La Perla Negra’ (The Black Pearl) she has again delivered a true appraisal of brilliance by dedicating her inspiration to the late Frida Khalo.”
The Independent Newspaper, UK1 April 2011
“One way or another, life confronts us with catastrophes so that we can learn to elevate the physical or psychological part of us as humans to a level that logic is incapable of rea-ching. This is why I identify so strongly with Frida.”
Financial Times Newspaper, UKApril 2011
“Art for money’s sake can beat stocks and shares”
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