Guillermo Kuitca To Represent Argentina
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Guillermo Kuitca To Represent Argentina

Installation view: Guillermo Kuitca, Diarios (2000-2005), Collection of the artist, Buenos Aires. Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York. This series will not be part of the Argentine Pavillion.



BUENOS AIRES AND NEW YORK.- Argentina’s Ministry of Cultural Affairs today announced that internationally acclaimed artist Guillermo Kuitca will represent Argentina in the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007. Housed in the early 17th-century Ateneo Veneto, located near the opera house La Fenice in Campo San Fantin, the Argentine Pavilion will be open to the public from 10 June through 23 September 2007. The artist has created four large-scale paintings specifically for this exhibition.

In addition to showing in the Argentine Pavilion, Guillermo Kuitca’s work will be represented significantly in Biennale Commissioner Robert Storr’s central international exhibition Think with the Senses—Feel With the Mind: Art in the Present Tense. Thirty-eight canvases from the artist’s ongoing “Diarios” series will be featured.

Argentina is among 77 countries, a new record, taking part in the 2007 Biennale. Sergio Baur, Counselor of the Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, and Mercedes Perodi, Cultural Attaché to the Argentine Embassy in Italy, are Commissioners of the Pavilion, which is curated by Inés Katzenstein, Curator, Malba-Colección Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.

Argentine Ambassador Gloria Bender states, “We are proud to present the complex work of Guillermo Kuitca at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Chosen for his ability to both embody the Argentine and universal experience and to engage a wide international audience, Guillermo contributes to greater worldwide awareness of contemporary works made in our country. His contribution to Argentine art is not only through his own work, but also in his dedication to helping younger artists create their own visions.”

Kuitca, who was Argentina’s representative at the 1989 São Paulo Bienal, says, “It has been many years since I officially represented my country in an exhibition. At this moment in my career, I must say being asked was unexpected. It was a happily surprising request—and one to which you must say yes!” He adds, “In the spirit of the Biennale I wanted to create something in a different direction, something that hasn’t much to do with my past work. I can’t think of a better venue than the Venice Biennale to do this, to reach back into art historical time and movements and create from these a new form, which will be shown for the first time in this extraordinary historically significant building and city. Also, it is a particularly great feeling to be in this one directed by Rob Storr, whom I respect so much.”

“This new series of paintings is a dramatic change in the work of Guillermo Kuitca,” comments Inés Katzenstein. “Instead of relying on technical codes of space representation—coming from either cartography or architecture—as he has done in previous works and series, he is for the first time referring to the history of modern painting; specifically to certain heroic moments of the history of abstraction.

“Presenting this new work in the context of the Venice Biennale is a meaningful, brave, and even polemic gesture,” she continues. “Moreover, since the consequences of the dialogue between this new work and the Baroque images of the Ateneo Veneto are uncertain, the whole project is both a challenge and an open proposal to how the art will interact.”

Upcoming Multi-venue Retrospective and Artist’s Biography:

The first comprehensive retrospective of Guillermo Kuitca’s art to travel in the United States in fifteen years has been initiated by Olga Viso, Director, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, in association with Doug Dreishpoon, Senior Curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, in Buffalo, New York. Examining over two decades of the artist’s painting and including approximately 45 canvases and 20 works on paper made between 1985 and 2008, Guillermo Kuitca will open in 2009 and be on view at the Albright-Knox, the Hirshhorn, the Miami Art Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

Born in 1961 and based in Buenos Aires, Guillermo Kuitca has distinguished himself internationally since the mid-1980s. Trained privately from the age of nine, he had his first solo exhibition in 1974. First associated with a more expressive mode of painting, the artist moved toward a more conceptual style involving architecture and public space in 1987. He began to exhibit internationally and had solo museum and gallery shows in the Netherlands and the U.S., including a 1992 Projects show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Also that year, his installation for Documenta IX of “map” paintings and a large installation of “bed” sculptures brought him significant international attention. Since then his solo exhibitions include one at the Instituto de Arte Moderno (IVAM) in Valencia Spain (1993), which traveled to the Museo de Monterrey, Mexico, and the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (1994). Burning Beds: Guillermo Kuitca, A Survey 1982–1994, took place at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and traveled to the Whitechapel Gallery, London. In 1999 he exhibited at the Centro Hélio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro and in 2000 at the Foundation Cartier in Paris. A retrospective of Kuitca’s art, covering the period 1983 to 2003, was organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and was on view at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) in the summer 2003.

Among the major public collections containing works by Kuitca are the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Art Museum; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Fonds National d’Art Contemporarian, France; Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and The Tate Gallery, London.










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