Miserable humanity, it's your fault

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando | Madrid

October 30, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Inspired by Goya's Disparates, the multidisciplinary artist Lita Cabellut presents this exhibition in which the views of both artists on the human condition are shown, expressed through different artistic languages.

In Goya x Lita Cabellut. The nonsense. "Miserable humanity, it's your fault", Goya's Disparates and Cabellut's pieces, meticulously arranged, far from being a simple visual exhibition, are presented as an intellectual immersion that challenges the observer to explore the underlying, historical and cultural synergies between the works of these two artists, thus stimulating a deeper and more participatory appreciation of the conceptual richness that emanates from this artistic dialogue.

This encounter with Goya has led Lita Cabellut, from humility, to understand that the concerns and conceptual, aesthetic and emotional inclinations of the Aragonese master were always present in her work from the beginning. This amalgam of thoughts and visual forms is presented as a journey, where the essence of artistic creation is unraveled and the complexity inherent in aesthetic understanding is embraced.

The intricate dialectical symphony between two creators from different eras highlights the complexity of the intellectual process that underlies the interpretation of their works. The conceptual and artistic confluence between these two expressions is fertile ground for the in-depth investigation of the essence of the exhibition, the elaboration of which implies the convergence of both arbitrary thoughts and the synthesis of not-so-obvious codes, thus challenging the cognitive capacity of the viewer, but at the same time with an evident sensory stimulus.

In the words of the curator of the exhibition, Eloy Martínez de la Pera: "Two views that analyze the soul of the human being. Dialogues between Goya and Cabellut. They speak to us of fear, envy, friendship, love, violence, ideology, politics, chaos, old age, ambition, power, loyalty. And they do so by shedding light on these concepts. A metaphorical light that accompanies us to delve into the human condition, and an essential plastic light to understand his way of 'understanding' art."

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*Text : translation from the website of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando