Cesc Abad was born in 1973 in Barcelona, an only child of a family devoted to its family business. At 15 I was expelled from school and that was the moment when I felt attracted to visual arts and specially painting. Under the condition of working in the family business, my father paid for my first studio. In those first years I experimented and exhibited my work in different exhibition centres and art galleries.

It was all going well until my father suddenly died when I was 21. Without even thinking, I found myself leading our family business, which would deeply mark my way of understanding art, the world and myself. I worked as the manager of the company, always leading it with my highly creative character. So, while managing the company, I set up more than ten successful companies in different fields (electronics, industrial cold, sports and fashion). In that period I understood that my passion for painting made me look weak in front of my business colleagues and I decided to hide it. Having enough time and money I decided to set up a big studio next to my company in the strictest secret.

In my firm, and just next to my office, there was a door which led directly to my workshop, where I constantly experimented with materials and different techniques (painting, photography, video, ceramics, etc...) without the need of hardly ever showing my work.

That room was called “the wall” by my staff. Nobody knew what was behind it, not even my closest co-workers. I just shared it with my closest family. However, this way of working, without the need to sell my work, without any limit on resources, hidden to the public and with a very high business activity, became very hard on my personal wellbeing.

After leading a double life for twenty years, in 2016 I decided to sell my companies and devote myself exclusively to the artistic creation. I moved to a more modest studio and started preparing my work to be shown to the world. I decided it would not be a secret anymore.