Torres Orrego

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Guillermo Torres Orrego

Chilean painter born in Valparaiso. He studied law at University of Chile and Catholic University of Chile. In this profession he occupied some important public positions. Since 1980 he left the practise as lawyer and devoted to the painting. He is a self-made painter and his work is far from the traditional canons of plastic art.

Some exhibitions in Chile:

1981 Las Condes Culture Institute
V International Biennial of Art, Palacio Lyon, Valparaiso.
1982 Chilean-French Culture Institute.
Las Condes Culture Institute.
1983 Lawrence Gallery.
VI International Biennial of Art, Palacio Lyon Valparaiso.
Goethe Institut.
1984 Chilean-American Culture Institute.
Davens Gallery.
Lawrence Gallery
1985 VII International Biennial of Art, Valparaiso.
Tajamares Museum.
Lawrence Gallery.
1986 Gallery of the Valparaiso Municipality
1992 Arcos de Bellavista Gallery
1997 Nemesio Antunez Hall, UMCE

Some exhibitions abroad:

1984 Franulic Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Müler Hall , Curitiba, Brasil.
Hispanic Culture Institute, Brasilia, Brasil.
1985 Pekin Imperial Palace, Popular Republic of China.
Art Center of the Montevideo Municipality, Uruguay.
Nanchang, China .
Singapur
Bangkok, Tailandia
1986 Montevideo, Uruguay.
Asuncion, Paraguay.
House of Ecuadorian Culture, Quito, Ecuador.
Catholic University of Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominicana.
San Jose, Costa Rica.
1987 Puerto Principe, Haiti.
Kroma Gallery, Lima, Peru.
1999 Peolple's Hall of the Art, Porto, Portugal.

Galleries
"His paintings are very dramatic, sometimes with a touch of ironic humor. I enjoyed his work"
Yvonne Slezynger, Brazil Herald, junio 1984.

"Of course, there are in Torres Orrego dose of talent of primigenial freshness..."
Waldemar Sommer, El Mercurio, Chile, september 1983.

"Multiple elements of intense color we can see in Torres Orrego's paintings, an expressionist of features and gestures accused in his palette of warm and vivid colors..."
Diario El Dia, Uruguay, 1985.

 

 

 

 


Updated:
september 2000
october 2000