About the Artist

Born in 1978 in Santander, Gorka graduated from the Massana School of Arts and Design in Barcelona and continues his Master’s degree at Goldsmiths College in London. Today he lives and works between London and Madrid.

The works of Mohamed are not without questioning the spectators as they are so troubled. From Diego Velázquez to Tex Avery, his world is cultivated, nourished, rich in meaning, and references. Portraits, still lifes, crucifixions, foot drawings, landscapes with always flat horizons and dreamlike shapes, strange scenes with organic geometries, each painting opens many doors, suggests multiple themes.
His work is rooted in the history of painting in his country. Some paintings are reminiscent of the decadent portraits Goya has produced the power of his time. Deformed, tortured, austere characters, collages, and assemblies of shapes, we are often close to the Spanish baroque, but the one Gorka proposes is totally hallucinated. There are also obvious and beautiful references to the Magritte cow period. However, it moves away from this surrealism licked by a faster, coarser touch, marks another filiation and the reflection of the friendship that binds it with Manuel Ocampo.