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.