All exhibitions are an act of dialogue between the artwork, the viewer and the artist. The aim of Dialogues to (Dis)Cover the Work of Lita Cabellut is to establish a four-way dialogue between the works, viewers, the artist and people from the field of culture, enabling us to explore the aesthetic universe and content of her pieces. Dialogues to discover and explore a work and its meanings.
The style and the content of the work of Lita Cabellut provides depth for reflection and self-questioning on themes such as time, what it is to be human, power and fragility; blind mirrors that have ceased to reflect our image. Works in which the human face is the central focus for the tension between the fleetingness of life and the determination to live and be in the world. Each of the dialogues is an invitation to viewers to see themselves in the artist's work.
"I learnt to paint before I learnt to read"
Language as a way of understanding reality, lived experience as reality, completed work as a map of the world. Dialogue with a completed work is not only a discovery of the artist’s language but also a site for learning which teaches us to look and think within the framework of her output. It is a picture within a picture.
Carles Duarte. Poet and linguist. Chair of the National Council of Culture and Arts and director of the Institució Cultural del CIC. Author of literary works on which he has often collaborated with painters, sculptors, photographers and musicians. Awarded the Serra d'Or and the Premi de la Crítica, he has also been honoured with the Creu de Sant Jordi, and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic.
Vicenç Altaió. Poet, essayist, art critic, columnist, cultural agitator and purveyor of ideas. He co-founded the magazines Tarotdequinze, Èczema, Àrctics, and Cave Canis. He was director of KRTU (Culture, Research, Technology, Universal) and of l’Arts Santa Mònica (Arts, Science, Thought and Communication). He has curated numerous exhibitions centring on artistic, literary and scientific matters. His most recent publication is Miró i els poetes catalans. He played the part of Casanova in the film Història de la meva mort, by Albert Serra.
Roberta Bosco. Journalist specializing in contemporary art and digital culture. Since 1998 she has been a regular contributor to El País. She is the Spanish correspondent for Il Giornale dell'Arte, the leading Italian art magazine. She has curated several exhibitions of electronic and digital art, with the most recent being Aproximaciones creativas a la Colección Beep de Arte Electrónico (Creative Approaches to the Beep Collection of Electronic Art) on until 30 March at the Museum de Reus.
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