themes of dislocation
07:58 | 06-11-2012 | Art | No Comments
[Guillermo] Kuitcas works of the late 1980s and early 1990s explore architecture and topography, as well as domestic and communal spaces. The floor plans of public institutions (the Tablada Suite), geographical maps (the artists map paintings on canvases and mattresses), and genealogical charts (the People on Fire series) begin to serve as important references during this period. Though these works imply social interaction and public spaces, the human figure remains notably absent.
Kuitca further explored organizational systems throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. In “Neufert Suite,” 1998, a series of paintings, and “LEncyclopédie,” 2002, a series of works on paper, he references an architects handbook and the work of French philosopher Denis Diderot, who attempted to condense the whole of human knowledge into an encyclopedia. In his series of drawings titled Global Order, 2002, Kuitca fuses a map of the world with building plans for domestic spaces, identifying borders and notions of place as the changing products of human invention.