Description

Catalogue of the exhibition Kuitca 86. From Nobody Forgets Anything to Seven Last Songs , presented at Malba between March 14 and June 23, 2025.

Fifty years after Guillermo Kuitca's (Buenos Aires, 1961) first exhibition, held at the Lirolay Gallery in 1974, Malba welcomes the great Argentine artist back to its galleries for the second time. This publication compiles the research undertaken to produce Kuitca 86. From Nobody Forgets Anything to Seven Last Songs , an exhibition focused on some of his main series made between 1982 and 1989. 

Published in a significant dual edition—Spanish and English—this book includes images of all the exhibited works, plus a rich selection of documents from the artist's archive. The body of texts comprises essays by curators Sonia Becce and Nancy Rojas, along with a selection of specially commissioned texts from Argentine authors: Graciela Speranza posits Kuitca as a "painter of time" ; Santiago García Navarro characterizes his work through the notion of "intramediality"; and Viviana Usubiaga meticulously documents the material research conducted by Malba on the works using infrared and UV photography. The volume is completed with a comprehensive illustrated chronology of the artist, written by Sonia Becce. 

“ Kuitca 86 (2024) can serve as a coda to the exhibition. The grand scale of the scenes from that year are miniaturized in a small, now three-dimensional, artist's room, where paint covers everything—the bed, the chairs, a toilet, a guitar, a television—and advances festively without limits. Four decades have passed since Seven Last Songs , and Kuitca perhaps looks with a touch of irony at the melodramas of those excessive spaces and the clichés of artistic bohemia. And although he downplays them with the play on scale, and even celebrates with balloons the ludicrous conquest of the all-encompassing oils, the real palettes that now serve as the walls of the small room lend documentary and material truth to the time of a life invested in painting.” — Graciela Speranza

Authors
Sonia Becce
Nancy Rojas
Graciela Speranza
Santiago García Navarro
Viviana Usubiaga

Technical specifications
Published by: Malba
Year: 2025
Type: Exhibition catalog
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 26 x 20 cm
Weight: 925 gr
Spanish
Pages: 272
ISBN: 978-631-90681-5-3