Book: Guillermo Lorca . Collector Edition
Guillermo Lorca Advertising ISSUE 72 JUNE 2025
New paintings included in this book are The Hunt for
the Mermaid, The Forest Game, and Beti (On The Cover)
The collector's edition of 100 books worldwide on Lorca's paintings, exclusively featuring the new cover of the exclusive engraving "Beti," is a treasure for art enthusiasts. Each book is a window into the master's creative mind, where emotion and imagination intertwine in every brushstroke.
Published by The Guide Artists Publishing, this edition introduces new details and printing techniques, enhancing the viewing experience and bringing Lorca's art to life in unprecedented ways.
This collector book is reserved solely for the most discerning collectors, offering a glimpse into the depths of Lorca's genius and serving as a testament to his enduring impact on the world of art.
Furthermore, each book in this collector's edition is serialized, with only 100 copies available worldwide, making it an even more coveted item for enthusiasts and collectors alike.
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”.
Guillermo Lorca (Santiago de Chile, 1984) is one of the great international references of the new generation of figurative painters. His work is a great pyrotechnic spectacle of light and colour that immerses us in spaces of fable and legend.
Guillermo Lorca is part of an evident resurgence of figurative art on the international cultural scene, which is once again taking an active interest in quality and informed production, recovering classical techniques and narratives to speak to us about today’s world.
