Cecilia Alemani on Guillermo Kuitca
Curator Cecilia Alemani first met Guillermo Kuitca in his Buenos Aires studio in 2012. Ahead of Kuitca’s solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, Alemani discusses Kuitca’s latest body of work, which sees the introduction of fresh elements of figuration. Kuitca has forgone his celebrated cubistoid meditations to reorient recognizable symbols – a chair, a door, a mirror, a figure – in nonpictorial settings. These new paintings disrupt the viewer’s sense of certainty and, in turn, the temptation to take for granted what is real in the world around us.