Guillermo lorca
Santiago de Chile, Chile,1984
Inspired by art history icons from Romanticism to the Pre-raphaelites, the work of Chilean artist Guillermo Lorca has made an impactful entry into the art world thanks to his solo presentation at Moco Museum in Barcelona.
Known for his large scale paintings permeated with magical realism and populated by fantastic creatures and young human souls exhibiting innocence and fearlessness, he is now a sought after artist in the international art market.
The Landing - intervened (2022)
Giclee print
93,6 x 86 cm (size without frame)
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other examples of the artist’s work
About The Artist:
Born in Chile and now based between Santiago de Chile and Barcelona, Guillermo Lorca studied fine art and has been an apprentice and assistant of the popular Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum.
This young painter mixes magic with realism in his paintings, in an effort to interpret a "sense of death and eroticism" manifested by a work full of symbolism. That feeling of death occurs in his work full of magical and fairy tale elements.
He is fascinated by classical painters such as Rembrandt and Diego Velazquez and that inspiration can be observed in his Baroque influenced work which deals with sensitive issues such as violence, sensuality, innocence and childhood.
Lorca does not work haphazardly; each painting is carefully elaborated, from the idea to the realisation - in its internal mathematics, every element is incorporated for a reason. When painting, Lorca is interested in realism in the sense of rescuing traditional painting itself, beyond what is painted.
