About:

Claudia Katharina Lüthi alias Abdelghafar El Bana
Born 1967 in Zurich, Switzerland
Living in Switzerland
Contact kunst-grafik@bluewin.ch
Website https://kunst-grafik.ch

Education
2001-2004 studies at the New Art School in Zurich
2021 studies at the Drawing Academy and the Old Master Academy in London

I love to paint oil colours because they are smooth and I can paint in several coatings. So there is a three-dimensional 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 people around me has also negative things in there live.

A curator from Creative Concept Inc. describes in my paintings is an understated incandescence and that my style is both contemporary and classic all at once. It places me in a artistic realm that is somehow entirely familiar. When someone looks at my paintings there is a vision that resonates with the viewer long after viewing.

In 2006 I began to paint oil colour on velvet. I like to play with the structure from the velvet. There is a special effect on the painting with velvet. 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 cities-scapes have to live, I want really not to copy only photos but that the people 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 Ireached my goal.

I reach my goal when the painting is more vivid than the photos, when the people stand there, look at and forget the time. So I like that the viewer will be reached from the atmosphere of the painting. My subjects are animals, landscapes and cityscapes. My goal is not only to make realistic paintings but to give them a soul and live. So when you pass the animals on my paintings it could be that you think they have moved.
they feel the sun on there skin, they hear the hoofs galopping over the floor or the listen to the birds, the wind or the sea.
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.


Exhibitions

2024
Los Angeles Art Show Artexpo New York Biennale Art Expo Venice Hyperion Messe Basel during Art Basel Hamptons Fine Art Fair
2023
Digital exhibition inside the Florence Biennale 2023


"From Europe with Love" 
The Westin New York at Times Square



Tokyo Tower Art Fair

30th March - 2nd April 2023

Artexpo New York

2020
19th January 2020 Image of the day on ArtTour International
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 organised through USIA


2014
Digital exhibition at Spectrum Miami
Exhibition together with Francisco Lacerda in the Hotel Eurostar das Letras in Lisbon, Portugal
The power of perception at the S Space Gallery, New York
„THE EXCLUSIVE EXHIBITION“ at Bulgary Hotel & Residences London ALL INDIA CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION

2013
Group exhibition in the Broadway Gallery in New York
Group exhibition at the Gallery Flussreif in Berikon, Switzerland


2012
Parallax ART Fair, London
Solo exhibition in the book shop Bodmer AG, Zurich


2011/2012
Solo exhibition in the restaurant Erushof, Bettwil Switzerland

2011
Group exhibition in the SIGNAL-IDUNA Businesstower in Mannheim, Germany, organised from the gallery Böhner.

2010
Solo exhibition in the rooms of the municipality in Buchs, Zurich
Group exhibition in the Hubraum in Buchs Kehrsatz

2008/09
Solo exhibition in the Egli’s Horse Trend Shop, Hinwil ZH
with paintings oil on velvet the first time
Solo exhibition Restaurant Eintracht, Schafisheim

2007
Solo exhibition Iftest AG, Wettingen

2005
Solo exhibition Restaurant Sternen, Wettingen

2004
Solo exhibition Restaurant Bergli, Bergdietikon
Solo exhibition In the rooms of the dentist Dr.med.dent. Barna Bescek in Zurich




Awards:

2021 Certificate of Excellence for being among the best 100 artist 
 presented in the 49th online contest on artavita.com

2015 Certificate of Excellence for being among the best 100 artist 
 presented in the 13th online contest on artavita.com

2015 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

2012 Honorable mention on the 2nd Art Contest through Artavita.com

Publications

2011 Participation for the International Contemporary Masters Vol. 5 
from WWAB

2012 My own art book about the last 10 years

2013 Wohler Anzeiger, Newspaper in our region of Switzerland

2013 My Travel report featured in the online Version of the NY Arts Magazine

2015 Art in America 2015 Guide