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Devotional benches, confessional booths, mercy seats and altars |
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The Neufert Suite (above) Individual prints: $4,000 |
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Guillermo Kuitca
Guillermo Kuitca, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961, began painting as a young child and had his first one-person show at the age of 13. Kuitca addresses the relationship between people and spaces, and “the human need to impose order on the spaces we occupy” (Eleanor Heartney, ARTnews). His spaces are empty of people, and frozen in time, except for his painterly markings that serve to manipulate the images and mark the passing presence of inhabitants.
With the exhibition of a series of maps, often painted on beds, his work began to receive serious international attention in the late 1980s. He has shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Documenta IX in Kassel, and in museums and galleries in Spain, England, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil.
In addition to maps, other frequent themes include city grids, apartment floor plans, theatre spaces, and abstract designs for conducting the activities and rituals of everyday life.
In the photogravure print Naked Tango, Kuitca pays homage to Andy Warhol’s dance step paintings, which were simple copies of diagrams created for teaching popular dance forms in mid-century America. By taking such a diagram for dancing the tango—Argentina’s exotic, sensual and politically charged national dance—and tracing the imprints of a dancer’s bare feet in movement, Kuitca confronts the ideal with the real, transforming Warhol’s neat, almost clinical design with the disorder of actual experience. The sensitive photogravure process captures the inflections of pressure, speed and direction of the dancer’s movements, imparting a calligraphic presence on the print.
Naked Tango was created by Kuitca and published by Graphicstudio in support of the Aid for AIDS Project.
In the lithographic diptych produced at Graphicstudio, L'Encyclopedie (Marble flooring plan and ceiling plan of a Salon in the Palace of the Marquis de Spinola), architectural drawings of great houses are used for inspriation. The artist mines his materials from existent maps, plans and architectural drawings; those in L'Encyclopedie are derived from engravings in Diderot's 18th century L'Encyclopedie.
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