Sperone Westwater, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
London, Hauser & Wirth, Guillermo Kuitca, September 24 - November 8, 2008
Miami, Miami Art Museum, Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008 (October 9, 2009 - January 17, 2010); then travelled to Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (February 19 - May 30, 2010); Minneapolis, Walker Art Center - Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (June 25 - September 19, 2010); Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (October 21, 2010 - January 16, 2011)
Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008, exh. cat., Miami Art Museum, Miami, 2009, p. 195 (illustrated)
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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