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​Santiago - Chile, 1984
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Guillermo Lorca is a renowned contemporary painter. Despite his young age, he already possesses an amazing international career and a unique and distinct pictorial language. He has held important exhibitions, including The Asprey Exhibition in London, “Eternal Life” at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Chile and "Splendor of the night" at the MOCO Museum in Barcelona, Spain. On these days, he's on collaborations with the famous actioner Simon de Pury, art galleries and museums, most of which are concentrated in Europe. Currently exposing at the Tang Contemporary Art in Seoul and at the Palau Martorell in Barcelona.
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Lorca is a thoroughly narrative painter. In each of his paintings there’s a story, he unfolds with his brushes bewildered scenes inhabited by girls and animals.
Giant yellow-eyed cats, angelic girls, and unknown creatures make up the haunting and sensual world of Guillermo Lorca. Mixing magic and realism, the young Chilean Contemporary artist creates large-scale oil paintings loaded with surreal narratives and dreamlike sequences. Within each of his drama-filled scenes, there is a dark balance of power and competition between nature and humankind.
In his works he handles a beautiful balance between the monumental and the detail. Wide landscapes of vivid colors are inhabited by the characters defined by subtle gestures and specific features. The scenes shine thanks to his refined technique of adding layers of color that compose an intense and warm light.
The paintings are prodigious scenes that seem to put us before a sweet abyss; at the doorstep of where the human and the animal make contact, depicting the possible meanings of said encounter. There’s also a palpitating situation that invoke those undone beds, with dogs or bests, which repeat themselves between hallucinations that move between consciousness and slumber.
Guillermo Lorca's work outlines a hypnotic image of the ambiguous and sensual violence of nature. It manifests, with a strong psychoanalytic background, the psychic and emotional syntax of those internal landscapes that revolve around the anguish of death and the forces of desire. His work is filled by symbolisms with moments of ecstasy, in which death verges on beauty, and danger is tied to seduction. Each painting is the tip of the iceberg of that unconscious magma of the human condition. Because in its rich tapestry we can recognize the notions of Eros and Thanatos or the category of "the uncanny" of Sigmund Freud.
STUDIES
2002-2006
Bachelor of Arts.
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Santiago, Chile.
2006
Apprentice and assistant to the artist
Odd Nerdrum
​Norway
2011
GlogauAir
Art residency.
Berlin, Germany
SOLO SHOWS
2024.
THE SHINE IN THE OTHER ROOM
Tang Contemporary Art
Seoul, Korea
2021-23.
SPLENDOR OF THE NIGHT
Curated by Simon de Pury.
MOCO Museum
Barcelona, Spain
2019.
SOLO EXHIBITION
Curated by Simon de Pury.
Asprey
London, England.
2019.
THE ENCOUNTER
El Tranque Cultural Center.
Santiago, Chile
2018.
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS
Gabriela Mistral GAM Cultural Center.
Santiago, Chile
2014.
THE ETERNAL LIFE
National Museum of Fine Arts.
Santiago, Chile
2012.
CANDY HOUSE
Hilario Galguera Gallery.
DF, Mexico.
2010.
PAINTINGS IN LATENCY
CCU Art Galley.
Santiago, Chile.
2007.
DIEBUSHKA
Matthei Gallery.
Santiago, Chile.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2024.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION
Palau Martorell
Barcelona, Spain
2023.
UNPACK REVEAL UNLEASH
Curated by Yonni Park and Jeeeun Hong
Tang Contemporary Art
Seoul, Korea
2018.
DOG IN POSES
Realle Venarea Museum
Turin, Italy.
2017.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION
A.M.S. Marlborough Gallery
Santiago, Chile.
2015.
HERNECIA
MEAM Museum.
Barcelona, Spain.
2015.
RASEGNA STAMPA
Castello di Lipari.
Sicilia, Italy.
MURALS
2009.
BICENTENARY PROJECT
Six mural paintings (340 x 300 cm. each).
Subway Station Baquedano.
Santiago, Chile.
2008.
MURAL CASINO MARINA DEL SOL (3 x 32 mts)
Conception, Chile.
2005-06.
TABALÍ VINEYARD MURAL (4 x 45 meters)
Ovalle, Chile.