Painting As Theater, From Guillermo Kuitca ; He Began Painting As a Child, Gave It Up at 20, Then Explored Art As Theater. Now an 'Everything' Exhibit at Albright-Knox Celebrates the Intellect and Emotional Insight of This Prolific Argentinian Painter.

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Crisis came early for Guillermo Kuitca.

In 1980, when the prolific Argentinian painter was barely 20, Kuitca threw down his brush in frustration. Having painted consistently since he was 6 -- he had his first exhibition when he was just 13 -- the artist had reached a standstill. For him, the limitations of his chosen medium had become too much to bear.

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Painting As Theater, From Guillermo Kuitca ; He Began Painting As a Child, Gave It Up at 20, Then Explored Art As Theater. Now an 'Everything' Exhibit at Albright-Knox Celebrates the Intellect and Emotional Insight of This Prolific Argentinian Painter.

"I felt that all the things that I was doing were simply not genuine enough, not good enough, not real enough. And I wasn't finding a connection with that," Kuitca said in a recent interview at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Kuitca's struggle came at a time when the rest of the art world, having previously declared the art of painting dead, was experiencing an overwhelming resurgence of the form.

"I didn't even know that art was dead, because I was too young to consider that," Kuitca said. "So I experienced the death of painting as a sort of personal experience, not ...

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