Guillermo Kuitca

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.

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.