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He has exhibited at major art institutions such as the National Museum of Fine Arts in Chile (2014), the MOCO Museum in Barcelona (2022–2025), and has held significant exhibitions in London (Asprey, 2019), Seoul (Tang Contemporary Art, 2024), and Mexico City (Hilario Galguera Gallery, 2012).

Through his figurative art, Lorca crafts a unique visual mythology that engages viewers on both emotional and symbolic levels, reaffirming his place as one of the most powerful figures in contemporary Chilean art.

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 colours are inhabited by characters defined by subtle gestures and specific features. The scenes shine thanks to his refined technique of adding layers of colour that compose an intense and warm light.

The paintings are prodigious scenes that seem to put us before a sweet abyss, at the doorstep where the human and the animal make contact, depicting the possible meanings of said encounter. There’s also a palpitating situation that invokes those undone beds, with dogs or beasts, 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 with symbolisms and 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; within its rich tapestry we can recognise the notions of Eros and Thanatos and Freud’s category of “the uncanny”.