New monograph.
Guillermo Kuitca is one of the most influential Argentine artists of his generation, internationally recognized for a practice that has expanded painting through its engagement with architecture, space, and perception. Over four decades, his work has explored the shifting boundaries between abstraction and figuration, image and structure.
La Chapelle documents a unique site-specific project conceived for the Chapelle of the Musée Picasso in Paris, where the work remains on view until the end of 2027. Executed directly on the walls as an oil-on-wall intervention, the project transforms the chapel into a pictorial environment in which painting does not depict space but becomes space itself. The work represents both a culmination and a decisive moment in Kuitca's exploration of mural painting and "cubistoid" architectures. Conceived as the lasting trace of an ephemeral project, the book will remain once the mural is dismantled, functioning as its primary record. Through carefully sequenced images, architectural views, and an in-depth conversation with the artist about the project, the publication offers insight into Kuitca's intuitive process and his dialogue with architecture, spirituality, and pictorial construction. Addressed to scholars, curators, collectors, and readers of contemporary art, Guillermo Kuitca. La Chapelle extends a temporary gesture into a lasting editorial form.
Guillermo Kuitca (born 1961 in Buenos Aires, where he lives and works) is one of
Latin America's leading contemporary artists. He had his first exhibition when he was 13 years old. Since the end of the 1980s he has participated in numerous exhibitions and biennials worldwide, notably at Documenta IX (1992) and at the 2007 Venice Biennale where he represented Argentina. Inspired by the worlds of
architecture,
theater,
music, and cartography, his
painting reconciles abstract styles with an illusionist form of figuration, and investigates ways in which absence, movement, and silence can be expressed on a two-dimensional surface. Inherited from his work in the theater world, notably through his collaboration with Pina Bausch, the relationships between people and space, reality and fiction are at the core of his work and his
drawing practice.
