For our upcoming November 9th sale, we are pleased to present this exquisite collection of six oil on canvas paintings by Gonzlao Torrico Prado.Born in Cochabamba Bolivia in 1956, Torrico always had an innate fascination with the indigenous populations throughout Central and South America.

Although born and studied in Bolivia, Torrico worked in Mexico, painting with expressionistic aesthetics, rural Mexico. It is not only the intricately detialed faces that pervade his works, but how single strands from traditional clothing blow in the Michoacan gusts, how the paint is seen chipping from the walls of the Cuetzalan Puebla, and how two woman in traditional Juchitan clothing discuss while buying watermelons stacked on crates.

Although born and studied in Bolivia, Torrico worked in Mexico, painting with expressionistic aesthetics, rural Mexico. It is not only the intricately detialed faces that pervade his works, but how single strands from traditional clothing blow in the Michoacan gusts, how the paint is seen chipping from the walls of the Cuetzalan Puebla, and how two woman in traditional Juchitan clothing discuss while buying watermelons stacked on crates.

Academic Background

1973 – 1977 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in the city of Cochabamba.

EXHIBITIONS

• Municipal Hall of Fine Arts, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
• Casa de la Cultura, La Paz, Bolivia.
• Inland in the town hall “Cecilio Guzman de Rojas”, La Paz, Bolivia.
• November Black Gallery Gildardo Antezana , Cochabamba, Bolivia.Intolerance Municipal Gallery

Gildardo Antezana, Cochabamba, Bolivia.

• Latin American roots. Asturian Center of Mexico. Mexico, DF XXXIX Municipal Arts Salon Pedro

Domingo Murillo. 4th Mention, La Paz, Bolivia.

• The Routes of Mexico. Museum of the Island Cozumel, Quintana Roo..
• Asturian Center of Mexico. Mexico, DF
• Simon I. Patino space. La Paz Bolivia.
• Painting Art Tangible and Enduring. Piazza gallery. Mexico City
• Garden of Colors. Graph of Estampa, Mexico, DF

EXHIBITIONS <./h3>

First National Meeting of Painters Bolivia.

National Congress of Plastic artists. Casa de la Cultura, Santa Cruz Bolivia.

The New Image Art Exhibit, Texas, USA.

Zaloren Contemporary Art, Mexico, DF

Teatro Diego Rivera Gallery. Mexico, DF

Michoacano Institute of Culture, Gallery Theo. Morelia, Michoacan.

Ephemeris of the Foundation of the City of Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Tamaulipas and the World, Carlos Pellicer House of Culture. Mexico, DF

Bolivia in the Heart. 178 years of republican life. Museum of the City of Mexico.

Permanent exhibition in Gallery Cordourier.

180 Anniversary of the Republic. Senate of the Republic of Mexico City.

Art Exhibition skin deep at the University of Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Bicentennial Exhibition in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca.

Auction “Iron Gate”, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Art Flor de Piel, Tutto Pelle, Av De Las Palmas.. Mexico City

Art Flor de Piel, Tutto Pelle, AltaVista. Mexico, DF

Land of Color, Ex Convent of San Hipolito, Mexico, DF

Paradigms CONAGUA, Mexico, DF

AWARDS

• Honorable Mention in Watercolor at the Municipal Hall of Fine Arts.
• Cochabamba, Bolivia. Especially in painting, Municipal Hall Plastic Arts Prize.

Competition Secretary of Youth. Third Prize – Presence of the Republic.

• First Prize: In the contest of Plastic Arts, Painting.
• Second Prize: In the contest of Plastic Arts, Painting.
• Third Prize: In the contest of Plastic Arts, Painting held in commemoration of the 168

Anniversary Ephemeris Department of Cochabamba, Bolivia.

• Second Prize. in watercolor at the Municipal Hall of Fine Arts “Pedro Domingo Murillo” the Bolivia peace
• Proceso magazine and publishing “New image” convened in 1979 to an international competition on ” Militarism “in Latin America, in the genres of essay, fiction, journalism and drawing.
• in 2002, receives an acknowledgment from the Embassy of the Republic of Bolivia in Mexico for his brilliant participation in various exhibitions.
• Hall Municipal Plastic Arts, Cochabamba, Bolivia. House of Culture, La Paz, Bolivia.
• Inland in the town hall “Cecilio Guzman de Rojas”, La Paz, Bolivia. House of Culture
• November Black, Gildardo Gallery Antezana, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
• Intolerance, Municipal Gallery Gildardo Antezana, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
• Latin American roots. Asturian Center of Mexico. Mexico, DF
• XXXIX Municipal Arts Salon Pedro Domingo Murillo. 4th. Mention, La Paz, Bolivia.
• The Routes of Mexico. Museum of the Island Cozumel, Quintana Roo.
• Asturian Center of Mexico. Mexico DF
• Simon I. Patino space. La Paz Bolivia.
• Painting Art Tangible and Enduring. Piazza galleries. Mexico City
• Garden of Colors. Graph of Estampa, Mexico DF