| GUILLERMO KUITCA |
Born in Buenos Aires in 1961, internationally acclaimed artist Guillermo Kuitca began painting at the age of 6 and had his first exhibition at 13. Inspired by dance, film, theater, and literature, his work has since been exhibited worldwide, with solo shows at the Kunsthalle, Basel (1990); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1991); the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2003); and the Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago (2006). A mid-career retrospective organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. and the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, is scheduled for 2008-2009, and will also travel to the Miami Art Museum and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. Kuitca, who lives and works in Buenos Aires, was chosen to represent Argentina at the 2007 Venice Biennale, where he was one of only 3 artists in both a national pavilion and in Robert Storr’s central international exhibition. Among the public collections containing Kuitca’s work are The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
Beginning with stark pictures of empty beds in the early 1980s, Kuitca’s emotionally charged imagery has expanded to include architectural plans, maps, and hallucinatory theater interiors, devoid of figures and enveloped in darkness. In depicting deserted social spaces where public and private realms intersect, Kuitca evokes the loneliness and dislocation which characterize contemporary life. In recent years, he has broken new ground with Diarios, a series of circular canvasses filled with sketches, lists and other traces of his daily life in the studio, and the Desenlace paintings, which reinterpret the history of abstraction from Cubism to the present.
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