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Oct 21: Guillermo Kuitca
October 2010
When Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca talks about rounding up scores of
paintings and drawings for his current retrospective, he sounds as if he
were reuniting with children he long ago gave up for adoption. “It is
hard to see them,” Kuitca, 49, admits. “Some shine, and others swallow
the attention. They simply are not easy to play with.” “Guillermo
Kuitca: Everything”—which opens at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden in Washington, D.C. (October 21 to January 16, 2011), after a
year of touring smaller venues—spans the artist’s career, bringing
together his eerily captivating images of road maps and theater seating
charts with ink-on-canvas numerical sequences, abstract paintings,
installations of piled mattresses, and smaller, nearly Impressionistic
drawings. Linked by themes of space and migration, the works “were
difficult to organize,” says Kuitca. Yet the Hirshhorn, coming off a
widely praised Yves Klein show, offers “wonderful rooms and angles. I
like that you can see an installation of beds and turn the corner to
find a drawing. Even for me, there will be small surprises.”
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