20th-21st Century Spanish

This Catalan artist is regarded as a key Spanish and international figure in twentieth and twenty-first century sculpture. His industrial engineering studies soon led him to discover an interest in drawing and painting and he then began to study art under the painter Salvador Masana i Mercadé (1924-2009).

In 1958, he decided to move to Madrid to enrol at the School of Arts and Crafts and at the Círculo de Bellas Artes. Despite living in Madrid, Estruga always remain true to his roots, his coastal region and the memory of the Mediterranean Sea.

In the mid-1960s he decided to travel to Paris, where he began to feel the call of sculpture. In 1966 he obtained a grant from Fundación Juan March and made some sculptures for the urban space, such as his Monumento a la Mecanización del Campo at the Madrid University Campus.
As from the 1970s onwards his work was included in many national exhibitions, like the National Exposition of Fine Arts, and international shows in Sao Paulo, Belgium, Greece and Yugoslavia.