Untitled 2 (Sin título-2)
Guillermo Kuitca
Argentine, born 1961
1997
A lithograph and etching in which Guillermo Kuitca reconfigures theater seating plans into a floating, warped diagram that uses numbered seat-rows to turn an architectural blueprint into a meditation on absence and displacement.
You first notice dozens of tiny, numbered rectangles arranged in curved tiers that ripple, overlap, and skew like a distorted topographical map or an empty auditorium rendered as a precise, ghostly diagram.
Working from plans, maps, and theatrical layouts, Kuitca transforms institutional floorplans into poetic visual metaphors that probe memory, migration, and how shared spaces are imagined, abandoned, and remembered.
Medium
Lithograph and etching
Dimensions
plate: 16 7/16 x 23 1/2" (41.8 x 59.8 cm); sheet: 22 7/16 x 30 1/4" (57 x 76.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books Fund
Accession
97.2011
Palette
Exhibitions
