Kuitca’s paintings from the late 1980s and early 1990s explore human interaction and migration through architectural and topographical renderings. His Puro Teatro series represents the interiors of theatres, the seating map "becomes a powerful metaphor for individual and shared experience` a theme that is carried into works of maps on mattress type cushions and canvas. From W magazine - the mattress works are described as speaking "hauntingly of isolation, dislocation, loneliness" and his maps alluding "to homes past and present and the journeys in between."http://tinyurl.com/yfz58uu
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Also at The Knox, contributions to art history from Canada in The Automatiste Revolution. "The Automatists were the first artists to bring modernist painting to Canada and the first Canadian artists to embrace avant-garde gestural abstraction." The AGO currently has a room of Francoise Sullivan who was a core member of Les Automatistes. http://tinyurl.com/yg4f3yt
Both Albright Knox Gallery shows until May 30th.
Francoise Sullivan AGO work shown here.
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