Guillermo Kuitca's 'Les Citoyens' at Triennale Milano

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca (born 1961) presents 'Les Citoyens' at Triennale Milano, the third in a series of exhibition projects commissioned by Fondation Cartier. Following 'Les Habitants' (Paris, 2014) and 'Les Visitants' (Buenos Aires, 2017), this show explores the concept of citizenship and social responsibility through a selection of works from the Fondation Cartier collection. Kuitca, for whom architecture and cartography are recurring themes, transcends the roles of artist and curator to become a 'first citizen' among the participants. The exhibition is structured around collective nouns—group, togetherness, community, constellation—creating a three-dimensional network of relationships without hierarchy. Works are united by their exploration of human experience in society, with each piece functioning as a neighborhood within a city. The show includes cluster-works composed of numerous homogeneous elements, and the entire exhibition becomes a cosmos where themes and formal solutions create constellations linking pieces from different eras and cultural backgrounds. Visitors activate this complex neural network through their gaze.