Guillermo Lorca. The Sand House

May 28th - September 27th, 2026

MUSEU EUROPEU D’ART MODERN

Barra de Ferro, 5. Barcelona. Spain

The MEAM presents the first solo exhibition it has dedicated to the Chilean artist Guillermo Lorca, one of the leading young figures in figurative painting on the international scene. The exhibition, entitled The Sand of House and conceived as a retrospective of his work over the last decade, comprises 20 works displayed across seven rooms on the museum’s first floor.

Guillermo Lorca, who works whilst keeping the great masters of world painting firmly in mind, has devoted himself to constructing a unique universe where beauty and unease, childhood and menace, the human and the animal, the intimate and the monumental all come together. Lorca’s work imagines scenes whose psychological tension and symbolic power invite the viewer to participate in an experience that is seductive, unsettling and deeply evocative.

The Sand of House explores Guillermo Lorca’s visual thinking, characterised by a narrative that suggests more than it explains, as well as by a style of painting that retains the power to move and intrigue, with the aim of lingering in the memory of the viewer. Through a body of work produced over the last decade, visitors to the MEAM will discover the depth and complexity of the Chilean artist’s pictorial imagination.

His technical virtuosity, great visual ambition and a strong narrative intensity are evident in each of the scenes, steeped in drama, on display at the MEAM. In his large-format oil paintings, he conjures up a disturbing and sensual world, inhabited by giant yellow-eyed feline beasts, angelic maidens or unknown creatures. His vibrantly coloured landscapes are populated by figures defined by subtle gestures and distinctive features. In each of his paintings, the artist plays with magic and realism to craft a hidden balance of power and rivalry between nature and human action.

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