Guillermo Kuitca: Theatre Collages

Stephen Barlow, Karen Wright, and Hauser & Wirth. Zurich, Scalo Verlag, 2005. 

English language, Fine, Limited Edition, one of 1500 copies, 4to, 12" x 9 3/4", Unpaginated, ~72 pp.

ISBN: 3039390309

Gold cloth-covered boards with black lettering on spine. Black and red lettering on front cover. Covers have slightly bumped tips and a few small bumps on top and bottom edges, else pristine and intact, binding tight. Pages pristine and intact. Replete with color illustrations. Back colophon on copyright page: "This catalogue is published in an edition of 1,500 copies." Unpaginated, c. 72 pp., including illustrations and Index. A beautiful catalog with unique gilt cloth binding that was published on the occasion of an exhibition of the artist's work held in 2005 at two of Hauser & Wirth's art galleries in Zurich and London. As suggested by the title, most of the work featured in this catalog depicts collages of fragmented, semi-abstracted theater interiors. Guillermo Kuitca (b. 1961) is an Argentine artist who works in a variety of media. Many of his subjects incorporate themes of travel, cartography, architecture, music, and theater.