I was born in Barcelona in 1973, the only child in a family deeply rooted in its long-standing business. At the age of fifteen I was expelled from school, and it was around that time that I first felt a strong pull toward the visual arts, especially painting. My father financed my first studio on the condition that I would continue working in the family business. During those early years I experimented freely and presented my work in several galleries.

 

Everything changed when my father died suddenly when I was twenty-one. Without time to process the loss, I found myself running the business he had built. That moment profoundly shaped the way I understood art, the world, and even myself.

I worked as a manager, using creativity as my main tool to solve every challenge we faced. Over the years I created more than ten successful companies across different sectors such as electronics, industrial refrigeration, air conditioning, sports and fashion. Yet my passion for painting made me feel vulnerable in the business environment, so I decided to hide it.

 

With enough savings and free time, I secretly built a large studio inside the company headquarters, right next to my office. A door connected my office to this hidden workspace, where I experimented relentlessly with different materials and techniques such as painting, photography, film and ceramics. I rarely showed my work to anyone. Among my employees that door became known simply as “the wall.” No one knew what was behind it, not even my closest colleagues. I shared it only with a few family members.

 

Although I never needed to sell my work and had no limits in terms of resources, hiding my creative life while managing a growing business eventually took its toll. After living a double life for nearly twenty years, I decided in 2016 to sell all my companies and devote myself entirely to creating art. I moved to a more modest studio and began preparing work to share with the world. I decided it would no longer be a secret.