Chancho began his artistic training at the Escola del Treball in Reus and continued at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where, in 2000 —already a faculty member— he was appointed Chair of Painting.

Although in the early stages of his career he followed academic guidelines and informalist influences, the experiences lived in Baix Camp, in a Barcelona awakening from the greyness of dictatorship, and the vibrant cultural atmosphere of 1970s Paris led him toward a renewal of painting based on its essential features and on the trace of the line as the defining element of space —a path he has never abandoned and has continuously refined, despite artistic and emotional ups and downs.

Curated by Bernat Puigdollers, the exhibition seeks to delve into the primal structure that underpins the artist’s work. To this end, alongside other representative pieces from his solid career, a selection of notebooks and sketchbooks has been recovered —what the artist modestly calls his “table works.” As the curator notes, these “notebooks touch the very core of his oeuvre, what makes him unique as an artist: his line, understood as a trace of life that has found its fullest expression in painting taken to its very limits. A language —painting— that for centuries many have declared dead, yet continues to resurface with renewed strength.”