Lot Essay
In 1974, Kuitca burst into the art scene with his eye-catching series of paintings when he first exhibited in Lirolay Gallery, Buenos Aires at the age of thirteen. Since then, the artist has continued to exhibit with great success. As his work evolved, his themes rarely differed, yet each time they occuped twice the physical space and made direct references to film and theatrical settings from an airborne perspective.
By the late 1980s, Kuitca started practicing figuration and undertook his map series. Both urban maps as well as architectual blue prints constituted new metaphors for his innate expresssionistic style. The maps acquired a greater presence in his works, and the structures of the blue prints became his main source of experimentation. In Untitled (1989), the artist displays a simple flat design endowing it with plastic value by reproducing it thirty times, changing the position and the colors of the light that glow inside the simple plan. With this, Kuitca attempts to balance the geometric construction with an essential artistic expression without losing the formal features of the work which, in turn, emulate the form of the blue print.
By the late 1980s, Kuitca started practicing figuration and undertook his map series. Both urban maps as well as architectual blue prints constituted new metaphors for his innate expresssionistic style. The maps acquired a greater presence in his works, and the structures of the blue prints became his main source of experimentation. In Untitled (1989), the artist displays a simple flat design endowing it with plastic value by reproducing it thirty times, changing the position and the colors of the light that glow inside the simple plan. With this, Kuitca attempts to balance the geometric construction with an essential artistic expression without losing the formal features of the work which, in turn, emulate the form of the blue print.