Guillermo Kuitca (b. 1961)

Caracas, Museo Alejandro Otero, Guillermo Kuitca en Caracas, November 16, 1997–March 15, 1998, p. 29, no. 10, illustrated in color 

This work is in overall good condition. The structure overall is stable and secure. The media layer on the mattress is stable.
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"One image--a concrete, immediately identifiable object--appears and reappears in my work as a kind of leitmotiv or elemental structure: a bed. Over and above whatever ontological value we might assign it, the bed is a place of sleep, love, birth, and death. This everyday object, however, is not far from another dimension. It may also be experienced as a diagram that precedes possible experiences, a virtual space whose pure presence anticipates events that have not yet occurred; in other words, the painted bed may also be a plan: the fundamental design for part of a topology destined for habitation. The bed, in this sense, becomes the plan and the plane that we inhabit." 

Lynne Cooke, "Interações (Cartas: 15/7/1994-10/10/1994)", Guillermo Kuitca, Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, p. 97