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biography
His mother was from Valencia and his father was American. From the age of one until he was seventeen Tom lived in American university communities except for one year in Spain when he wasfive and learned more Spanish at a convent school. After finishing high school in the United States, he returned to Spain to study Fine Arts.

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Cylinder
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Seed & Helix[pic]

Panta Rei
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Show in Céret
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Continuum

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Although he graduated with painting as his specialty, he has always been attracted by the tridimensional, naturaland architectural space, and sculpture. Hence the concepts of space plus time have been from the beginning constant references in his work, such as the installation for the Espai 10 of the MiróFoundation in 1981. With that work he began what would be a constant in all his work: the expression of a maximum with a minimum of elements--what Giralt Miracle was to call "Spatial Minimal". The materialwas stretched cloth, string and painted sticks; later on there would be shadows ("Posiciones relatives", Galeria Metrònom, 1983), light reflected with mirrors ("Continuum espacial", Galeria 13, JoanPrats, Instituteo de Estudios Norteamericanos, Galeria Maeght, 1984) and slide projections: over facades of churches (Cadaqués, the Seu Vella of Lerida); in interiors ("Cripsis", Museo de la Ciencia,and Capella, Sala Moncada of the Caixa in Barcelona and Catedral, also in the Seu of Lérida); over small objects ("Natura Morta", Museu d’Art of Sabadell, "En tres dimensiones", Fundación la Caixa inMadrid, and "Trigon" in Graz).
After 1983 he began developing simultaneously, in addition to such installations, sculptural work based on architectonic, stereotyped forms: towers, stairways, arches,ziggurats, walls…utilizing wood which he then painted (Gamarra and Garrigues, Madrid, 1986; Pro Arte, Freiburg; Pierre Huber, Geneva, 1987; Hans Barlach, Cologne; Krief, Paris; y Vorstadt, Basel,...