Lautaro Cuttica

Lautaro Cuttica was born in 1987 in Buenos Aires Argentina. At the age of 9 his family moved to Brooklyn New York. In 2011 Lautaro graduated from the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York.

While Lautaro’s gestural strokes clearly echo the ethos of Abstract Expressionism the setting itself they inhabit, nuanced spacial structures, resonate distinctly with the ideals of Modernism. To that end his education in architecture proved essential to his understanding of how to shift, fold, and reconstruct the spaces replete in his painting. Yet this is merely the “opening,” to use a chess analogy recurrent in the artists vernacular, these constructions are then tested thorough gestural intervention absolved of premediation. Thus, his ultimate aesthetic mission surges from the action of painting itself, the resulting combination creates images at once resonant yet also unnerving, blooming with subliminal potency. This synergy ignites in the viewer what Lautaro terms as the “spacial uncanny:” a shattering of our sensual expectations, rearranged to a new cognitive poetic order. Ultimately Lautaro’s expressive will creates compositions which are utterly precise, or rather, he creates the structure for which a more enigmatic reality can take place. Lautaro’s work is a witness of what surrounds him and also a tragic witness of painting itself.

Lautaro lives and works in New York, New York.