Guillermo Núñez is an artist who throughout his work has denounced violence. In the 1960s he engaged in the aesthetic debates of the Cold War through a practice of political abstraction, defining his works as ‘protest paintings’. In 1971 Núñez was appointed director of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago but shortly after the coup d’état in 1973 in Chile, he was imprisoned, tortured, and obliged to go into exile. In Paris he engaged with the Solidarity Movement, and was part of the Pablo Neruda anti-fascist mural brigade. Núñez returned to Chile in 1987, and was awarded the National Prize for Arts in 2007.