Casca

Casca (1976) is a self-taught artist, born in Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon, into a family of Angolan artists. His paintings, drawings and sculptures are deeply influenced by the masks, symbols, artefacts and ancestral Angolan stories of the Chokwe people, with whom he lived for four years in north-east Angola.

Casca's work seeks to question the historical and artistic narratives told by the West, creating new true stories. He explores a self-referential perspective of the black image, creating figurative abstractions in his own colourful and unique style. His works combine drawing, painting and collages on canvas, re-establishing the immense traditional and spiritual richness that has always been hidden by the West.

Casca's commitment to art goes beyond being a vector of beauty and emotion; he sees art as a key to unlocking deep truths, a way of thinking quickly, an understanding of the world in its richness and complexity, a freedom of expression, a critical sense and a possibility of having simple conversations. He fights for this freedom and against any form of obscurantism and single-mindedness.