The Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca (born 1961) created, at the invitation of the Musée national Picasso-Paris, a site-specific work in the chapel of the Hôtel Salé. Since his intervention at the Venice Biennale in 2007, Kuitca has developed, in dialogue with the architecture, a new language that he calls "cubistoid painting", in which a set of intersecting lines unfolds directly on the walls, like so many creases on the plane, forming a new pictorial space.
For Kuitca, painting has a memory. Through these experiments, he connects himself to a history of modern art, cubism being invoked as the trace of a movement that operates like a diffraction of the real, the construction of an imaginary space.
This site-specific installation benefited from the generous support of the Hauser & Wirth gallery.