10 de março de 2007

Artforum





Artforum, April 2006, pp. 121, 124. by Josefina Ayerza


GUILLERMO KUITCA typically settles on a given structure as a form of emptiness. One may consider his work a kind of seating plan, as the Argentinean artist himself will tell you: Vacant chairs attest to an absence; what's more, the plan is only a representation, not the thing it represents. And so the represented thing becomes merely a gap, a void -- space as an object. Such empty space accrues the element of time, and the hidden cause of the desire. Am I saying that Kuitca draws, paints, fixes his collages into the dynamics of desire? Yes. ...
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