September 20, 2007
Guillermo Kuitca opens opera season at Gallery Met
As the Metropolitan Opera opens its season Monday, its free Gallery Met also opens with a new exhibition for the season, this one all works by Guillermo Kuitca, called "Stage Fright."
 In his "32 Seating Plans" seres, each image is based on a manipulated print out of the seating chart of the great opera houses of the world. Some are bold black and white, others as bright as Easter eggs, their colors dripping and morphing, the rows pulled and pushed out of proportion. At a preview of the exhibit earlier this week, Kuitca said he started each work by downloading the actual seating chart from each opera house, as if he were planing to attend the next performance. "Let's get a ticket and see where it leads you," he said.
Among his favorites is the Teatro Colon in his hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On view with seating charts are Kuitca's "The Flying Dutchman" drawings, created for his set design for Wagner's opera.
All the works are on display in the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery at Lincoln Center and is open to the public for free every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (and as late as 11 p.m. on performance nights,) except Sundays when its open from just noon to 6 p.m.
The Kuitca exhibition will run through November 1. In Spring, the gallery will have Chuck Close images of Philip Glass to coincide with the Met's premiere of the composer's "Satyagraha" on April 11.
The gallery is located in the southwest corner of the main plaza at Lincoln Center, facing the fountain.
Image credits: (Provided by MetOpera.) Top: "32 Seating Plans" (Detail of Theatre de la Bastille, Paris), 2007 Courtesy of Sperone Westwater, New York Photo. Right: (Metropolitan Opera, mixed media on paper), 2004, Private Collection - Courtesy of Sperone Westwater, New York Photo
Correction: This item was changed to add the correct date of opening night: September 24.
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