Personal details
Claudia Katharina Lüthi alias Abdelghafar El Bana
Born 1967 in Zurich, Switzerland
Living in Switzerland
Contact kunst-grafik@bluewin.ch Website www.kunst-grafik.ch
Education 2001-2004 studies at the New Art School in Zurich 2021 online-studies at the Drawing Academy and the Old Masters Academy
I love to paint oil colours because they are smooth and I can paint in several coatings. So there is a threedimensional effect in my paintings.
I love colours to express the positive attitude to my live. I believe that there is all the time a door open when I believe it. There is no sence to see the negative things in live because all the peoble around me has also negative things in there live.
In 2006 I began to paint oilcolour on velvet. I like to play with the structure from the velvet. There is a special effect on the painting with velvet.
There were peoble telling me to paint abstract things than I would have the better chance to sell it. But I love to paint animals, to bring there soul and character on the canvas or velvet, to give them live that when you pass the painting you are just thinking: „ups, this animal has it moved?“ Also the landscapes and citiescapes have to live, I want really not to copy only fotos but that the peoble can smell the woods or the salt water of the sea, hear the sound of the birds and the hoofs galopping over the floor. Then I reached my goal.
I reach my goal when the painting is more vivid than the fotos, when the peoble stand there, look at and forget the time.
The story of my artist-name is a short marriage with an egyptian-man who had this name. It sounds special so I kept this name as my artist-name.
Exhbitions
2020 19th January 2020 Image of the day on ArtTour International
15th May - 15th July 2020 Exhibition at the hotel Eurostar das Letras at Lisbon, Portugal
2019 Solo exhibition in the in the rooms of the municipality Unterlunkhofen, Switzerland Artbox Project in Zurich and Miami
2018/19 Solo exhibition „Long Live Freedom“ at Skyvalet in Lisbon, Portugal curated through USIA Co. UK Hotel Eurostar das Letras at Lisbon, Portugal
2016 Artexpo New York Art Monaco Spectrum Miami
2015 Digital Exhibition at Artexpo New York Private exhibition in the Hotel Ritz Four Seasons in Lisbon organized through USIA
2014 Digital Exhibition at Spectrum Miami Exhibiton together with Francisco Lacerda in the Hotel Eurostar das Vetras in Lisbon, Portugal The power of perception at the S Space Gallery, New York „THE EXCLUSIVE EXHIBITION“ at Bulgary Hotel & Residences London Digital exhbition of my artworks in ALL INDIA CONTEMPORARY ART EXHBITION 2014
2013 Exhibition in the Broadway Gallery in New York Exhbition at the Gallery Flussreif in Berikon, Switzerland Exhbition at the garage Dubler in Wohlen Switzerland
2012 Parallax ART Fair, London Exhibition in the book shop Bodmer AG, Zurich
2011/2012 Exhibition in the restaurant Erushof, Bettwil Switzerland
SIGNAL-IDUNA Businesstower in Mannheim, Germany, organised from the gallery Böhner.
2010 Exhibition in the rooms of the municipality in Buchs, Zurich Exhibition in the Hubraum in Buchs Kehrsatz
2008/09 Egli’s Horse Trend Shop, Hinwil ZH Restaurant Eintracht, Schafisheim
2007 Iftest AG, Wettingen
2005 Restaurant Sternen, Wettingen
2004 Restaurant Bergli, Bergdietikon In the rooms of the dentist Dr.med.dent. Barna Bescek, Zurich
Awards:
2021 Certificate of Excellence for being among the best 100 artist presented in the 49th online contect on artavita.com
2015 Certificate of Excellence for being among the best 100 artist presented in the 13th online contect on artavita.com
Honoured mention as the top artist of the year 2015 through USIA
2014 Fine Art Competition „Conscious Creation 2014 Winner of a Honorable mention through Vivid Arts Network
Publications
2011 Participation for the International Contemporary Masters Vol. 5 from WWAB 2012 My own art book about the last 10 years
