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Tomeu Estelrich Rigo was born in Alqueria Blanca, Majorca, Spain in 1968. He graduated in Tourism (Técnico en Empresas y Actividades Turísticas) at the UIB, completing his studies in Middlesex , London. He learnt engraving from Mercedes Laguens and deepened his knowledge with Joan Barbarà at the Joan Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca.

He refined his sculpture and relief techniques with Estela Videla at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Palma (Casal Balaguer) and broadened his performance techniques with Pedda Borowsky.

The visions of old city walls, which happen to be mural landscapes in themselves and which so closely resemble old paintings, are something I find fascinating. It is a key theme in my works. What a great amount of chromatic richness is to be found upon a wall weaved by the passage of time and polished by the wind and the rain!

The patina that it gets from the sun, the marks, the humidity, the plaster peeling off from sheer fatigue -from history-, the cracks, the wrinkles, the wind that nourishes its inner scenery, the footprints of the passage of time, the colour of the minerals, the natural pigments, the hues of blue... They are fragments which capture a precise moment in time.

Painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video. He collaborates with the literary magazines s'Esclop and Pèl Capell.