Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, where he still lives, Guillermo Kuitca has been developing a set of recurrent themes since the 80’s. Ranging from stages in theatres to familiar objects, along with apartment floor plans, city maps, and concert halls—these themes constitute the main elements of a personal world in which different levels of reality interlock and compose an improbable geography.
Exhibition overview
Organized into four series, the exhibition of Guillermo Kuitca at the Fondation Cartier offers a sweeping insight into the most recent work of this Argentinean artist who, is one of the major figures of South American painting in recent decades. Guillermo Kuitca reproduces road maps, architectural plates from Diderot’s L’Encyclopédie, and a treatise drawing up a schematic inventory of all human activities with the intention of subverting the original pieces. But in each of these paintings, he explores the relationship of painting to space and creates a cartography at once imaginary and of extreme precision.
Artists and contributors of the exhibition:
- Guillermo Kuitca
The exhibition in detail
Image gallery
