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Guillermo Kuitca
Untitled
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- $40,000 - 60,000
$47,500
Lot Details
oil on canvas
37 1/2 x 32 3/4 in. (95.3 x 83.2 cm)
Painted in 2008.
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Guillermo Kuitca received international accolades at a young age when he was invited to participate in the XVIII São Paulo Biennal in 1989 and has since exhibited extensively worldwide, including major shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. While his early paintings investigated areas like architecture, theater and cartography, his recent body of work continues to develop into new arenas. The present lot utilizes an architectural floor plan as its base, yet faceted paint layers obscure the viewer’s full comprehension of the represented space, both blocking the didactic nature of the map and simultaneously demonstrating a preoccupation with Cubism. This work relates to Kuitca’s powerhouse exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and shows his aptitude for disrupting the traditional notions of painting by optically exploring three-dimensional space.
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Guillermo Kuitca
Argentinian | 1961Guillermo Kuitca is an Argentinean child prodigy who held his first solo exhibition at age thirteen. He emerged as a painter during the 1980s, rejecting the neoexpressionist trend of the time. Yet his art is intellectually demanding, formally complex and relevant to the historical moment.
Kuitca is influenced by Antoni Tápies, Francis Bacon, Jenny Holzer and Pina Bausch. His paintings denote total abstraction and deal with space, language, deat, and travel. His series of maps from the 1990s depicted on canvases and mattresses explore themes of disappearance, migration and the importance of memory. He rarely depicts humans, and his map paintings are difficult to decipher geographically, allowing viewers to meditate on the psychology of space.
Browse ArtistKuitca is influenced by Antoni Tápies, Francis Bacon, Jenny Holzer and Pina Bausch. His paintings denote total abstraction and deal with space, language, deat, and travel. His series of maps from the 1990s depicted on canvases and mattresses explore themes of disappearance, migration and the importance of memory. He rarely depicts humans, and his map paintings are difficult to decipher geographically, allowing viewers to meditate on the psychology of space.