TOMÁS DÍAZ MAGRO (Madrid, 1941)."Gesture in Africa", 2020.Twine on polychrome wood.Signed and dated on the back.Measurements: 60 x 50 x 8 cm. Known for his successful career as an industrial designer, Tomás Díaz Magro began his professional career in 1959 with the Spanish Society of Design. His research into the curved wood system won him the Gold Medal at the Brussels Inventors' Exhibition in 1961. Three years later, he was a founding member of the ODM, for the development of materials. From 1968 he worked for Talleres de Arte Granda, and for other companies such as TAG, Otaola, Huarte muebles or LOEWE. Throughout his career he has won numerous awards, including the IFI International Prize. 1988, the Brúmel International Award (prefabricated and mobile platform for Renfe.1991, and the BEDA International Award. 1993, among others. In addition, in 1998, he took part in the exhibition "Industrial Design in Spain; a century of creation and innovation", which was held at the Reina Sofía Museum and Art Centre. From the 1980s onwards, Tomás Magro, who has always been linked to the world of design, began to devote himself entirely to artistic creation. His knowledge of materials and mastery of matter have given him a skill that he develops in his balanced works of art, in the words of the author himself; "This daily contact with matter, imagination and drawing, has created a world full of ambition, understood as how to make the different proposals that were being generated a reality. I observed the artists' works and I continue to look at them out of the corner of my eye, I don't want to know more about them, I don't want to learn too much, their burden will weigh me down. However, I enjoy them inside me like a collector, some of them live with me".