Due to great success, the exhibition by the Spanish artist Lita Cabellut in Museum Jan van der Togt has been extended. The monumental works of Cabellut will remain on display in the museum until 3 March 2019. Lita Cabellut - A chronicle of the infinite has already attracted 10,000 visitors so far. Partly due to this well-attended exhibition, the Jan van der Togt Museum is proud that in 2018 the visitor record of the year before was matched.

Over the years, Lita Cabellut has developed a unique technique in which she paints grand portraits and combines traditional fresco techniques with the use of oil paint. By subsequently breaking the paint layer of these impressive works, a new image is created through the combination of chance and power. With this Cabellut wants to let go of what we can recognize and control. "As if you can break the time with your own hands." The resulting image was created freely and has received a new essence.

Lita Cabellut was born in 1961 in Huesca (Sariñena), where she lived on the street until she was adopted by a prominent family at the age of 12. She was taken to museums such as the Prado in Madrid where she came in contact with the old masters. The young Cabellut was inspired by paintings by Velázquez, Goya and Frans Hals and the many frescoes in her home town. After her training, Cabellut had her first exhibition in Masnou town hall, Barçelona. Two years later - at the age of 19 - she left Spain to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands, where she still lives and works.

Cabellut's work is exhibited all over the world. She previously had museum exhibitions in Seoul, Seattle, Mumbai, Delhi, Tokyo, Berlin and in the Noord-Brabant Museum in Den Bosch.

Publication: A richly illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibition.

Sponsor The exhibition was made possible in part by the Friends of Museum Jan van der Togt and thanks to Volvo Bangarage Amstelveen. Photo: Lita Cabellut Secret behind the veil2012, mixed media on canvas Private collection