The Mara-Mao Museum, or Casa Pillimpo, in Teguise will be used as the setting for a new series called Crime In Spain.
TV trucks have been seen outside the well-known house, which attracts many curious visitors to the old town. The series is apparently a psychological thriller featuring the investigation of a missing girl in a “house of disappearances”.
The Maramao Museum was created by José García, nicknamed Pillimpo, a quiet field worker with no artistic training at all. Despite this, he tirelessly created plaster statues of human beings, horses, cactuses, lions, and angels; displaying them in his garden and surrounding them with carefully arranged dolls, toys and any bric-a-brac that caught his eye.
Every now and then he would paint all the statues a different colour – over the years they have been green, pink, and silver. García died in 2019, but his mystical, spiritual vision of Mara-Mao still attracts fascinated onlookers and is treasured by admirers of “outsider art”.
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