Acoustic Mass III (Covent Garden), 2005 mixed media on paper (For more information of Guillermo Kuitca and his work, click here)
The title of book: Cartographies & Contemporary Voices
" Kuitca's speciality is maps, maps in the broadest sense of the term, maps as diagrams of both spatial and temporal relationships. He has painted family trees, the floor plans of stadiums, apartments and prisons, the seating arrangements of theaters, the street plans of cities (in one case creating a grid of city blocks composed of hypodermic syringes). He has transposed the topography of countries onto the hollow-pocked surfaces of mattresses and has tackled his theme with the broad-est possible range of painterly techniques. The results are often extremely handsome abstract paintings with a referential twist. Critics have insisted on discovering all manner of angst in these works- everything from elliptical references to the terror instituted by the military junta that ruled Argentina in the 70s, to suggestions of the anoymity and free-floating anxiety that attend modern urban existence."
(ArtScene, 1999, by Mario Cutajar)
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