Julián Pacheco

Julián Pacheco began painting landscapes in his native Cuenca. After a brief spell in Madrid, he settled in Barcelona in the early 1960s. There he witnessed the beginning of the crisis of Informalism and became aware of the need for a more socially engaged art. It was there that his rebellious, campaigning attitude took shape, leading him into exile in opposition to the Franco dictatorship, first to Paris and then to Italy, where he lived until the late seventies, when he returned for good to Cuenca, where he died in 2000.

His work combines the urban landscape of graffiti with political and social activism. His “walls” are, on the one hand, a way of representing popular expression, both political and aesthetic, and at the same time a way of intervening in it, imprinting his own demands with his artistic personality.