GUILLERMO KUITCA

“Many years ago, I painted pictures showing a luggage conveyor belt. I think thatart history was the real subject of these paintings. Art would be this carousel; the work of art, a piece of luggage and the artists, passengers. While waiting for our luggage, we ask ourselves a number of questions: ‘Will my suitcase arrive and will I be able to recognise it among other similar ones? And if I took someone else’s suitcase, would I be wearing their clothes? Will my luggage be destroyed forever? For me, these questions are a meditation on inheritance . They also envision a possible encounter with Picasso, as if he were, after all, another passenger.”

For Kuitca, painting has a memory. Through these experiments, he links up with the history of modern art, Cubism being invoked as the trace of a movement that operates like a diffraction of reality, the construction of an imaginary space. This site-specific installation was generously supported by the Hauser & Wirth gallery.