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Gilgamesh I | Guillo Pérez 3 | Original Oil Painting
Gilgamesh I | Guillo Pérez 3 | Original Oil Painting
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Original oil painting by Guillo Pérez 3 · Dominican-American expressionist artist · Mythological figurative painting · Available at Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery, Tampa, Florida · Ships worldwide
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest recorded story in human history, a Mesopotamian text that predates the Book of Genesis by more than a thousand years. Its hero is a king who loses his closest companion, confronts his own mortality, and searches the ends of the world for the answer to the question that has never stopped being asked: how do we live knowing that we will die?
Guillo Pérez 3 came to Gilgamesh through his lifelong study of world history and comparative religion. Raised in a devout Christian household, he was drawn to the discovery that the questions at the center of his faith: mortality, purpose, the meaning of friendship and loss, were being asked thousands of years before the Bible was written, by people in a civilization that most of the Western world has forgotten. That recognition did not diminish his faith. It expanded his understanding of what faith is.
Gilgamesh I is the first painting in what Guillo considers an ongoing dialogue with the ancient world. The hero is present not as a historical illustration but as a living archetype. He is the person inside all of us who refuses to accept that what we love is temporary.
Those who encounter this work are encountering one of the most intellectually grounded paintings in the collection. Every mark carries the weight of a man who has done the reading and painted from the inside of it. The ancient world was always known through story and feeling rather than documentation. Guillo knows it that way too.
| Artist | Guillo Pérez 3 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Certificate | Certificate of Authenticity included |
| Shipping | Ships worldwide with full insurance |
| Payment | Payment plans available |
Collector's Note
Gilgamesh I is the work in this collection that most directly rewards a collector who cares about what a painting knows. For those building a serious collection of contemporary figurative work with intellectual depth, it represents a defining acquisition. The subject connects Guillo's practice to one of the longest threads in human cultural history. It is a thread most contemporary painters never reach for.
Acquisition
Available through Marcolina's Fine Arts Gallery with worldwide shipping, full insurance, and professional art packaging. Payment plans available. Private viewings by appointment in Tampa, Florida. Virtual viewings available for collectors anywhere in the world. Contact us to inquire. New to collecting? Read our collector guide →
“Marcolina’s isn’t just a gallery. It’s a place where people remember who they are.” — Guillo Pérez 3
About the Artist
Guillo Pérez 3 is a Dominican-American painter, co-founder, educator, and cultural ambassador whose artwork and vision help define the identity of Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery. Born in Santo Domingo and raised in Queens, New York, he is the grandson of Maestro Guillo Pérez, one of the Dominican Republic’s most respected painters and a recognized figure in the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program, and the son of master painter Willy Pérez. Three generations of unbroken serious painterly practice.
Guillo has painted with severely limited vision since childhood. Like Monet, who painted his Water Lilies series while losing his sight, and Matisse, who created his most celebrated works when illness took him away from the canvas, Guillo’s relationship with sight has become the source of something extraordinary rather than a constraint. Unable to rely on conventional vision, he paints from a place of total interior conviction: from historical knowledge, spiritual formation, and a bodily intelligence built over decades of serious practice. Every mark is a commitment. Every color choice is an act of faith. When he paints, that is when he is seeing.
He grew up in a deeply religious Christian household and has spent a lifetime in serious study of world history, comparative religion, and international affairs. His paintings are not decorative mythologies. They are the work of a man who has read the texts, lived the contradictions, and paints from the inside of those traditions.
Working from Tampa, Florida, he has developed Bauhaus Budō: a synthesis of Bauhaus design discipline and the meditative rigor of martial arts. His work has been exhibited across the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe. The New York Times recognized him as a “Star Maker.”
