Guillermo Mora cultivates a unique visual vocabulary, creating an abstract mode of communication. Mora’s stimulating compositions construct environments through which the artist questions protocols and procedures of contemporary painting. His work is focused on three concepts: overlapping, concealment and disappearance in painting.
In the "2019" series, works are formed by an overlap of several layers of paper and paint that build the image. However, there is a secret behind them: these large paintings hide a series of drawings and sketches from the artist’s past that subtly mix between layers as they intertwine two temporal realities. The pieces don’t only work as images in and of themselves, but they also serve as containers for other images. The main objective of these paintings is to create a pictorial structure in which the two temporal realities coexist, as if the painting were a time capsule.
Guillermo Mora was featured in 100 Painters of Tomorrow by Thames & Hudson and was awarded several interational prizes, including the Audemars Piguet Award. He received a fellowship from the Spanish Academy in Rome in 2010–2011, as well as a scholarship at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York in 2016. His work is part of the Margulies Collection (US), the Museum Voorlinden (NL), the Elgiz Museum (TR), the Fondazione Benetton (IT), the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (ES), and the Caja Madrid Foundation (ES), among others.