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Gilles Dyan & Jean-David Malat
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LA PERLA NEGRA
A tribute to Frida Kahlo by LITA CABELLUT
at Opera Gallery London
DATES: From April 1st until April 21st, 2011.
Opera Gallery London is proud to host a very unique exhibition: artist Lita Cabellut’s personal tribute to
the great Frida Kahlo. Lita Cabellut pays her tribute to the Mexican lady on monumental canvases and a
powerful and striking colour-palette.
"I am very proud and pleased to curate this fabulous show, Lita Cabellut's art is not just about her
work but also about her personality: in so many ways does she remind me of Frida. Her life, her
history, she imprinted them onto each monumental canvas that she created for this series",
(Director of Opera Gallery London and art expert Jean-David Malat)
BIOGRAPHY: Lita Cabellut
Lita Cabellut was born in 1961 in Barcelona, where she grew up in a poor Gypsy-environment. Her work
is closely intertwined with the memories of the old area of Barcelona, El Raval, with closeness to the
docks, La Bocquerai market, Las Ramblas and Sant Antonie market, replete with pickpockets, street
performers and of course, prostitutes. After 13 years of street and orphan life she was adopted. In this new
period of her life she discovered the Prado museum. She liked especially Goya, Velazquez, Ribera and
Rembrandt. She later said: "I married very young, my first marriage was with the art". Her works were
first shown when she was 17 years old, at the Town Hall of Masnou, Barcelona. At the age of 19 she
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decided to leave her native country for new challenges in the Netherlands, where she studied at the
Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam between 1982 and 1984. Nowadays, Lita Cabellut is regarded as a
painter with a unique pictorial language. Her 'human- faced' paintings are exposed all around the globe,
in New York, Dubai, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong, Barcelona, London, Paris, Venice, Monaco, Seoul
and many more cities.
Alain Henry Steegmans
LA PERLA NEGRA: A tribute to Frida Kahlo
“Facing the tragedies that life brings us and embracing them as a present” (Lita Cabellut).
One can never stop the natural process of life that often comes with physical affliction, but misery is never
a fatality. Lita Cabellut symbolically chose to deliver her message through the broken body of Frida Kahlo,
at a moment when the human faith and mind reflect on the cracked bones. This is the time when one
must accept the breaking of their own body in order to give oneself a chance to rebuild and reborn. This
is the time when the incredible strength of the human being shines through the darkness that life can
sometimes bring.
Frida Kahlo is the ultimate symbol of death and life. Above all, she is the symbol of the space that lies in
between the two: the space where the human being leaves a definitive testimony if his existence.
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134 New Bond Street . LONDON W1S 2TF Email: london@operagallery.com Tel: +44 (0) 207 491 2999 Website:
http://www.operagallery.com
Fax: +44 (0) 207 409 0910
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