Guillermo Kuitca

The Timothy Taylor Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition by this outstanding Argentinean artist to take place in London since his acclaimed show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery 'Burning beds' A Survey 1982 - 1994, two years ago.

Achille Bonito Oliva has said about Kuitca's paintings that they are "intangible works of control and at the same time of vertigo. The togetherness of the two moments becomes the task of the artist". Kuitca reinforces this duality by conflicting the relationship between the spectator, the painting and his own presence as the art maker. 

"I associate my work with the panoptic vision. The gaze that sees all. In my work I construct a panoptic viewer even without using a panoptic plan. The same happens in the stage paintings and the house plans: everything is exposed to the viewers eye"  - Guillermo Kuitca in conversation with Lynne Cooke, 1995.

Unlike many artists of the past decade who have investigated the body to understand the human condition, Kuitca has analyzed the spaces individuals occupy and inhabit to probe human nature. Looking to the mechanics that have developed to define and organize the world, such as mapping and charting and to the systems created to house, store, entertain and contain humanity and its many physical and social processes, Kuitca has focussed in particular on the spaces where individuals and communal experience and personal and collective memory are exchanged. These tenuous points of intersection between the public and the private spheres of life and the many attendant contradictions are at the heart of his work. 

Guillermo Kuitca was born in Buenos Aires in 1961. He lives and works there still.