Kicking off the annual Ruth K. Shartle Lecture Series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, artist Guillermo Kuitca will join Latin American art curators Mari Carmen Ramírez and Rachel Mohl, Art History Ph.D. candidate, in conversation on April 8, 2021 at 6:30pm. The 2021 edition of the series explores the question “What is contemporary art?” with artists whose work is on view in the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building.
The Ruth K. Shartle Lecture Series continues through December with virtual conversations featuring artists Christiane Baumgartner, Aaron McIntosh, Julie Mehretu, and Vik Muniz, among others.
This program is free and open to the public. Zoom registration is required.
Guillermo Kuitca is a contemporary Argentinean artist best known for his paintings of geographical maps and architectural plans. Although his works are not overtly political, their theatrical nature seems to reference themes of loss and migration.
Rachel Mohl is a Ph.D. candidate on the Museum Professionals track at Rice University and Assistant Curator of Latin American and Latino Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Rachel co-curated Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America (MFAH), and has contributed to various other research projects and exhibitions, including most prominently Intersecting Modernisms: The Brillembourg Capriles Collection of Latin American Art (MFAH) and Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 (MFAH). Her current research explores the influence of Jewish immigration on the development of the avant-garde in Latin America during the 1940s and 1950s.
Image: Guillermo Kuitca, "Le Sacre," 1992, acrylic on 54 mattresses with wooden and brass legs, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund. © 1992 Guillermo Kuitca