Born in Cuenca in 1949, Julio Abad Saiz is defined as a self-taught figurative sculptor who from an early age was interested in art in its most diverse forms. Already at a very early age he began to draw the characters of the movies he saw in the cinema. During adolescence, he began to excel in the subject of drawing while developing his skills in this discipline. However, he was fascinated to see how a sculptor molded the clay with his hands. This is the moment when he comes into contact with sculpture for the first time and discovers his ability to shape volumes. Parked the painting, Julio Abad Saiz realizes his first sculpture in the Granero academy of Cuenca; a bust of a companion of that academy. After this initial work, and after completing a mold making course at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, he develops his taste for portraiture and the human figure influenced by classical sculptors such as Michelangelo, Bernini or Mariano Benlliure and Cuenca artists like Leonardo Martínez Bueno or Luis Marco Pérez. Throughout these years he has made various solo and group exhibitions throughout Castilla la Mancha, as well as numerous commissions for cemeteries and the city of Cuenca. undefined

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