Siete ltimas canciones

After travelling to Europe in 1980, Kuitca returned to Argentina where he designed and directed several theatrical productions and began to create expressionist paintings. Many of these works depict cavernous stage sets populated with miniscule figures engaged in mysterious and often violent narratives. In Siete ltimas canciones (Seven Last Songs), Kuitca effectively uses these elements. A miniscule woman wearing only red shoes, lies crying on the floor of an enormous room. In front of her stands a man in a suit who is separated from the viewer by a roped barrier. These curious and mysterious elements both intrigue and draws one to the piece.

The present lot forms part of a series of paintings entitled, Siete ltimas canciones, all painted in 1986. In this series, the artist re-tells a story using similar iconography. It has been said of this piece that "the word last of the title, with all its tragic connotations, indicates a path, and announces its definition as the ending of a particular series. Like a coda at the end of a song, Kuitca returns to what has been said and sung before, in order to provide a roundness, and the precision of perfection which signals the finale of that period" (1).


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S. Becce, Guillermo David Kuitca: Obras, 1982-1988, Ediciones Julia Lublin, Buenos Aires, 1989, p.34