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Guillermo Kuitca

b. 1961, Argentina

Untitled, 1991
Acrylic on canvas

 

Guillermo Kuitca’s practice is strongly identified with his use of beds during the 1990s, two examples of which are on view in this gallery. In one of the works, a small three-dimensional mattress and box spring are covered by a dark abstract map, while the other is a painting of an architectural plane set against a patterned background reminiscent of mattress buttons or the walls of a psychiatric patient’s cell. Mixing the symbolisms associated with beds and manipulations of the coded visual languages of maps and house plans, Kuitca’s works evoke situations of domestic anxiety.

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All Artworks, Latin America and Caribbean
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To Weave the Sky