nocturnal animals

“Lorca represents fantastic stories and stories taken from the oral tradition of literature, from those stories where passion and barbarism are the plot,” said Roberto Farriol, director of the National Museum of Fine Arts, about the individual exhibition that Guillermo Lorca had there in 2014.

Now Lorca comes to GAM with the exhibition Nocturnal Animals, an exhibition that brings together works from the last four years. The large-format figurative works are painted with a classic realist technique reminiscent of the baroque masters. Some have been exhibited in the National Museum of Fine Arts, in Spain and Italy.

Here objects, fruits, vegetables, plants, animals and characters are installed in closed, tensioned spaces. The compositions are more complex and the color palette richer than in previous works.

Guillermo Lorca (Santiago, 1984) studied art for two years at the Pontifical Catholic University and one year as an apprentice and assistant to the Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum. He has presented his work in Chile, Mexico, the United States, Spain, Norway and Italy. Probably his most viewed works are the Bicentennial Portraits, a series of paintings that have been in the Baquedano metro since 2010.

Nocturnal Animals is an exhibition curated by Pabla Ugarte, coordinated by Rosario Lorca and assembled by Patricio Fernández.