Guillermo Kuitca: Theatre Collages

Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca draws on a range of iconography, including architectural plans, maps, theaters, musical scores, and domestic spaces to produce an oeuvre that explores themes of history, memory, structured absence, sound and silence, and the tension between the empirical and abstract. Created as a limited edition on the occasion of an exhibition of the artist’s work at Hauser & Wirth London in 2005, this publication delves into the artist’s Theatre Collages, which transform the seating charts of famous opera houses and theaters into hoving abstracts. Essays by conductor Stephen Barlow and art writer Karen Wright shed insight on these fascinating works and their attention to the turbulent, dynamic relationship between stage and audience.