Untitled (Full Moon) Date: 2008 Medium: Oil on linen Dimensions: Unframed: 80 3/8 x 80 3/8 inches (204.17 x 204.17 cm) Framed: 84 x 84 x 2 1/2 inches (213.36 x 213.36 x 6.35 cm) Credit Line: Purchase: acquired through the generosity of the William T. Kemper Foundation---Commerce Bank, Trustee Object number: 2012.12 ON VIEWCurrent Location: G, L5 Terms ArgentinianPainting Copyright: This work is copyrighted. Consult copyright information for permission to reproduce. Provenance With Sperone Westwater Gallery New York, NY, by 2012; Purchased from Sperone Westwater Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2012. Gallery Label Guillermo Kuitca Argentinean, born 1961 Untitled (Full Moon), 2008 Oil on linen Chairs overturned, tables and beds askew, flames licking the darkness, a smoky haze rising—and all of it still and silent, reflected in black water. What has happened here? The artist does not answer that question. Instead, he invites each of us to imagine the pain of disaster and dislocation together with the strange and haunting beauty of the calm that follows. Kuitca lived in a state of psychological uncertainty in the 1970s, when over 30,000 of his fellow Argentineans “disappeared” during a series of brutal military dictatorships. His identification with the courageously vulnerable dance of Pina Bausch and the explosive final moments of Michaelangelo Antonioni’s film Zabriskie’s Point can be felt in this painting. Purchase: acquired through the generosity of the William T. Kemper Foundation—Commerce Bank, Trustee, 2012.12