Guillermo Kuitca

His career has seen a number of solo exhibitions in the most prestigious international institutions, from the Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1991) to the IVAM (Valencia, 1993), and Whitechapel Gallery (London, 1995), the Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica (Rio de Janeiro, 1999), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2003) and the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2014). The artist also represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale in 2007.

In 2000, the Fondation Cartier devoted a solo exhibition to him, Guillermo Kuitca, Œuvres récentes, organised into four series. Whether he is drawing inspiration from, and transfiguring, road maps, architectural plates from Diderot’s “Encyclopédie” or a treatise drawing up a schematic inventory of all human activities, Guillermo Kuitca explores the relationship between painting and space, by creating a cartography that represents an imaginary world and yet is extremely precise. In 2014, 2017 and 2021, the Fondation Cartier entrusted three major exhibition projects to him: Les Habitants (Paris, 2014), Les Visitants (Buenos Aires, 2017) and Les Citoyens (Milan, 2021) in which he cast his gaze over the works in the Fondation Cartier’s collection like an orchestra conductor, making sometimes improbable connections and allowing different voices to come together in harmony.