Juan Giralt (Madrid, 1940-2007) was initially self-taught under the influence of the Informalism that predominated the 1950s. He attended as free student at the Fine Art College in London, and later he lived successively in Paris and Amsterdam, where he came into contact with the CoBra Group.

Early on, his work began to oscillate between the abstraction and the figuration, with a visible desire of integrating both that crystallised in his maturity.

During his first stage Juan Giralt evolves from a Post-CoBra Expresionism to a New Figuration with pop echoes. It is this body of work what turned him into a reference point of New Figuration in Madrid. In the 1980s, Giralt begins to shape a more personal pictorial language, and after living in New York, he starts to explore new ways of figurative interpretation that alternates with abstraction. In the years that followed, until his death in 2007, he would gradually incorporate abstraction, but without ever relinquishing figurative elements that were present in the constant use of collage and the painted word.