Guillermo Kuitca Cat. Hauser & Wirth

by Fitzgerald, Michael C.; Hauser & Wirth; Kuitca, Guillermo

• ISBN13: 9783864421617
• ISBN10: 3864421616
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-05-26
• Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company

Summary

Guillermo Kuitca at Somerset

During a residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset June 2013, Argentinean artist Guillermo Kuitca (*1961 in Buenos Aires) created an immersive wall painting in the dining room of the ­residential house. This mural represents the first time Kuitca painted an entire space, completely surround­ing the viewer, which sub­sequently triggered a shift in his artistic practice. The resulting new body forms the focus of this publication, which offers fascinating insights into matters of domestic space and architecture. Co-pub­lished with Hauser & Wirth, the book features a con­tribution by Michael C. FitzGerald, professor of fine arts at Trinity College, Hartford. He has written extensively on Picasso and his legacy in contemporary art, and ­published several catalogues accompanying exhibitions, among others at the Museu Picasso, Bar­celona; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Wadsworth Atheneum.

Exhibition:
Hauser & Wirth Savile Row, 27/5–30/7/2016

Author Biography

Guillermo Kuitca, born 1961 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine painter. He represented Argentina 2007 at the Venice Biennale. His major topics are travelling, maps, and migration he reconciles in abstraction with an illusionist form of figuration. Since the 1990s he is exhibiting worldwide, amongst others 1990 at Kunsthalle Basel, 1992 Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1993 Center for Fine Arts Miami, 1994 Wexner Center for the Arts, 1999 The Arts Club of Chicago, 2000 Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain Paris, 2003 Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, 2006 Museum of Fine Arts Santiago de Chile, 2009 Miami Art Museum, 2010 Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, 2012 The Drawing Center New York, 2013 Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.