Guillermo Kuitca: Philosophy for Princesses
The works of Guillermo Kuitca, one Latin America’s most important painters, has rarely been shown in Brazil. Until now.
An exhibition titled Guillermo Kuitca: Filosofia para princesas (Philosophy for Princesses), at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, is presenting a diverse range of Kuitca’s works. The exhibition includes 50 works from the 1980s until 2013 and includes paintings, drawings and an installation.
Kuitca was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His work deals with themes such as displacement, isolation, loneliness and abstract representations of space. He draws on elements such as maps, theatre floor plans and architectural blueprints, working them into his pieces.
One of the highlights of the show is the installation Le Sacre (1992), which will occupy Pinacoteca’s central space the Octógono. Made up of 54 beds, on which maps of different parts of the world have been painted, Le Sacre explores an intersection of public and private space. The artwork has been previously installed in locations around the globe, displayed either mounted onto the wall or laid on the floor.
“I wanted to play with the perspective and size of the things; we are not as close to them as we think. I wanted an enlarged view of something, like the bed, an object as close as our own body, to then visualize it within the house, the house within the city, and the city within the map. A zoom that becomes increasingly distant, or closer,” said Kuitca.
Philosophy for Princesses is on display until Sunday 2 November 2014 at Pinacoteca de São Paulo in Brazil.
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