Jose Manuel Viano Viano, sculptor from Malaga, currently residing in Coín. He was born on October 15, 1956 in Malaga. He studies Applied Arts at the San Telmo School (Málaga), studying carving and polychromy with the sculptor Palma Burgos.

The training continues with a stay in Italy, where he knows the work of Miguel Berrocal. He also influences his learning process through trips to Barcelona, Pablo Gargallo's Zaragoza, Madrid and other Spanish cities. In 1976 he began his journey through competitions, exhibitions and other artistic achievements, spreading his work through a multitude of exhibition spaces, both public and private.

In Coín, public sculptures are attributed to him such as "El Caballo" at the entrance from Malaga, "La Diosa Tychen" at the entrance from Ronda, or "the monument to Gonzalo Rojo" in Plaza Escamilla.

This, his house-workshop, shared by Viano and Toto, his wife, represents an architectural recovery of an apparently simple patio house that hid within its walls a completely Mudejar structure, with two semicircular arches, an impressive horseshoe arch andalusí and viewpoints on a higher level, which could well have belonged to a Jewish Synagogue or Arab baths.

The situation of the house in the intramural zone and the connection with the water channel that runs in the underground zone, makes it unique and very suggestive.