Guillermo Kuitca
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM)
In a country where the work of most artists seems to have absorbed a foreign discourse or theory rather than developing its own, Guillermo Kuitca is a major exception. Kuitca, once the child prodigy (as obsessively portrayed in many of his previous pieces) has coherently and yet paradoxically exhausted his life in his work. This show included a comprehensive view of his oeuvre from his first paintings—crucially influenced by Pina Bausch’s dance theater—to his most recent works, which included a specially designed installation in which many small cradles, with mattresses on which maps had been