Guillermo Kuitca - Latin America New York Saturday, October 3, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam

  • Exhibited

    Amsterdam, Galerie Barbara Farber, Kuitca, May - June 1990

  • Literature

    E. L. Smith, Kuitca, Amsterdam, 1990, p. 17

  • Artist Biography

    Guillermo Kuitca

    Argentinian • 1961

    Guillermo 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.

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House Plan

1990
Acrylic on canvas in 11 parts.
8 x 11 3/4 in. (20.3 x 29.8 cm) each.
Signed, titled and dated "Kuitca 'House Plan' 1990" on the reverse of panel one.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $37,500

Latin America

3 Oct 2009
New York