Guillermo Lorca, Self Portrait
Guillermo Lorca was born in Santiago, Chile and began his artistic training at the age of 16, with Chilean painter Sergio Montero. In 2002 he participated in a group exhibition at the National Fine Arts Salon (Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes). After that show he started Arts studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, just to leave it very soon in pursue of his own personal training.
After college he studied for a while with Matías Movillo who taught him some important techniques – and from then on Lorca started to “simply observe a good painters like Velázquez”. Lorca is not hiding his fascination by classical painters such as Rembrandt and Diego Velazquez and that influence can be observed in his Baroque influenced work which is dealing with sensitive issues such as violence, sensuality, innocence and childhood.
After his first solo exhibition at Gallery Matthei, in 2007, Lorca had the opportunity to spend some time as an apprentice and assistant at the studio of the Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum, near Oslo. Lorca was his first Latin American protégé.