The SGAE Center Cultural Room will host the presentation of Joaquín Pacheco. Paint and word, by screenwriter and director Félix Cábez. After the projection, the director and the painter and protagonist of the documentary, Joaquin Pacheco, will participate in a talk moderated by María Fernández-Shaw Toda, art historian.
The film reviews and vindicates a key figure in Spanish art and culture, as well as a fundamental witness of our time, whose reflections allow us to travel through the last nine decades of European history, of contemporary art and the relationship of individuals and artists with the social and political environment in which they live. Born in Madrid, in 1934, Pacheco experienced the artistic scene of the post-war capital and was related to the revolutionary Second School of Vallecas (Benjamín Palencia or Juan Manuel Díaz-Caneja). In the 60 He lived in Paris with exiled Spanish artists and the underground, He shared a dealer with Cézanne and Matisse, and lived the May revolution 68. During his wanderings through the 20th century he crossed paths with legends such as Ernest Hemingway, Alberto Giacometti y Janis Joplin, among many others. But he never wanted to associate himself with the commercial vortex of the art world..
For your part, Félix Cábez has a degree in Image Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. He entered the world of audiovisuals at the beginning of the 90 and has worked as a screenwriter, director and producer in numerous television programs on the main Spanish networks. From 2000 focuses his career on documentary film and television, and has directed a dozen titles, like Almodóvar 20th century, Cooking for Jenny or Las voces de P.J.
