'The House of Sand' Exhibition by Guillermo Lorca
28 May 2026 – 27 September 2026 · 11:00
Museu Europeu d'Art Modern, Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera, Ciutat Vella
MEAM presents The House of Sand, a major solo exhibition by Guillermo Lorca surveying the artist's work over the last decade. The exhibition can be visited from 28 May to 27 September 2026. Lorca has built a distinctive pictorial universe where beauty and unease, childhood and threat, human and animal, intimate and monumental coexist. In his large-format oil paintings, the artist creates a hidden balance of power and rivalry between nature and human action through scenes of great psychological tension and symbolic force. Painting that seduces, unsettles and lingers. The House of Sand arrives at a moment of full international recognition for the artist: his work has a solid presence in the global art market and his institutional reach includes leading museums and centres in Europe, Asia and Latin America. MEAM, an institution devoted to the defence and dissemination of figurative art and contemporary realism, establishes itself as the natural setting for the work of one of today's most fascinating painters. Guillermo Lorca García Huidobro is a renowned contemporary painter. Despite his youth, he already has a remarkable international career and a distinctive pictorial language. He…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026