Waltz in the Branches

Almost ninety years after the assassination of Federico García Lorca, his literary and artistic work continues to have an enormous impact worldwide on readers, viewers, and artists. Guillermo Kuitca’s fascination with Lorca began at a young age, when he first read the poems, and this affinity has continued to develop in his later years, as we see in his stage designs for productions of The House of Bernarda Alba and Blood Wedding at the Teatro San Martín in Buenos Aires, in 2015 and 2023, respectively. Federico García Lorca/Guillermo Kuitca: Waltz in the Branches is a conversation initiated by Lorca through his theater, poetry, and drawings, echoed by Guillermo Kuitca and transferred into his own language. It is also a conversation with the twentieth century, crossing over generations, frontiers, and the boundaries of artistic disciplines. It is an exhibition devoted to the poetic image in all of its forms.

The exhibition presents works that address themes common to both artists ―the world of childhood, political persecution, religion, theater, trauma both personal and collective, and desire―, creating a rich interplay of correspondences