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Guillermo Lorca lands at the MEAM with his most ambitious exhibition in Spain
'The Sand House' covers a decade of the Chilean painter's work and reveals a fascinating universe where beauty, mystery and symbolic tension coexist.
The MEAM – European Museum of Modern Art presents The House of Sand , the first anthological exhibition dedicated to Guillermo Lorca (Santiago de Chile, 1984) in Spain. The exhibition, which can be visited from May 28 to September 27, 2026, offers an immersion in the creative universe of one of the most prominent names in international contemporary figurative painting.
Conceived as a retrospective of his artistic production over the last decade, the exhibition brings together twenty works distributed across seven rooms on the first floor of the museum. The tour allows us to discover the evolution of a singular pictorial language that combines the realistic tradition with romantic echoes and a powerful narrative charge.
Despite his youth, Guillermo Lorca has consolidated a remarkable international career thanks to a body of work that challenges the boundaries between reality and fantasy. His paintings construct scenes of great visual intensity, where innocence coexists with menace, delicacy with strength, and fascination with restlessness.
In The Sand House , the Chilean artist unfolds an imaginary populated by female figures with angelic appearances, monumental felines with piercing eyes, and creatures that seem to emerge from a dream or a dark tale. In these landscapes of vibrant colors, every gesture and every look become elements loaded with meaning, inviting the viewer to construct their own interpretation.
The exhibition highlights Lorca's technical virtuosity, especially visible in his large-format oils, as well as his ability to generate atmospheres laden with symbolism. His compositions explore the power relations between humans and nature, between fragility and domination, establishing a subtle balance that is always in tension.
More than a simple collection of works, The Sand House offers a profound approach to Guillermo Lorca's visual thought. His painting suggests more than it explains and retains intact the capacity to move, intrigue and leave a lasting mark on the memory of those who contemplate it.
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