The Comic Art of Guillermo Forchino
Gallery updated on Saturday, November 1, 2025
From the early 1980s, Guillermo Forchino experimented with a range of materials while studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rosario, Argentina, and later in art restoration at the Sorbonne in Paris. During these years he mastered classic techniques and materials.
After Paris, he directed the restoration atelier at the Juan B. Castagnino Museum of Beaux-Arts in Rosario. It was here he began creating figures using wrapped bands of cloth, with visible features in wax and papier-mâché tinted with natural pigments.
By the late 1980s, Forchino turned to polyresin, composing witty scenes that feel like comic frames—overpacked vacation cars, vintage pickups, boats, planes, and even a bathtub for a dictator—always with humor and heart.
He lives and works in Paris near Père-Lachaise. Works are released as limited, numbered editions and arrive wrapped in The Forchino Times with his autobiography, photos of the collection, and a certificate of authenticity.