CASCA
Painter, sculptor | Angola / Portugal / UK
Casca (1976), is a self-taught artist born in Lisbon from an artist family with Angolan relatives. He is one of the few Angolan Luso artists in the world of contemporary Angolan art. His paintings drawings, collages and sculptures are deeply influenced by the masks, symbolism and ancient stories of indigenous Angolan cultures a.o. the Chokweh people in North Angola, whom he studied and lived with in his formative years.
PORTRAIT
Born from an artist family in Lisbon, Casca picked up drawing and painting from a young age, but only started exhibiting as a professional artist in 2016. In his formative years he moved and settled down in Angola where he studied, amongst others, for many years indigenous cultures in North and later South Angola. Casca’s work is deeply influenced by these indigenous cultures, which he places in a unique contemporary setting in a mixture of sculptures, paintings, collage and drawings.
In his latest studies he paints series of observed characters that populate our contemporary society, brought back to memory by single phrases on each page of a novel, functioning as sketchbook. In his own unique colourful style, he combines drawing and painting on canvas in his Survivor-series, creating distorted abstract faces, combining indigenous patterns, masks and symbolism in a unique comic style with influences of street art and pop art.
In his upcoming solo exhibition The Book of Casca the untrue story on Congo in a leisure travel book from 1830 inspires him to resketch on its pages a truthful contemporary world with ancient roots, adding rewritten texts as new layers of meaning to the related paintings.
Since Casca started exhibiting in 2016 in Angola, he has participated in various exhibitions in Angola, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK (London, Birmingham and the Peterborough museum).
Born from an artist family in Lisbon, Casca picked up drawing and painting from a young age, but only started exhibiting as a professional artist in 2016. In his formative years he moved and settled down in Angola where he studied, amongst others, for many years indigenous cultures in North and later South Angola. Casca’s work is deeply influenced by these indigenous cultures, which he places in a unique contemporary setting in a mixture of sculptures, paintings, collage and drawings.
In his latest studies he paints series of observed characters that populate our contemporary society, brought back to memory by single phrases on each page of a novel, functioning as sketchbook. In his own unique colourful style, he combines drawing and painting on canvas in his Survivor-series, creating distorted abstract faces, combining indigenous patterns, masks and symbolism in a unique comic style with influences of street art and pop art.
In solo exhibition 'The Book of Casca' the untrue story on Congo in a leisure travel book from 1830 inspires him to resketch on its pages a truthful contemporary world with ancient roots, adding rewritten texts as new layers of meaning to the related paintings.
Since Casca started exhibiting in 2016 in Angola, he has participated in various exhibitions in Angola, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK (London, Birmingham and the Peterborough museum).
WORKS
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CREDENTIALS
Solo & duo exhibitions
2021
- The book of Casca, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands (coming soon)
2016
- EVIAVYO, Chiquitos, Coffee and Art, Benguela, Angola
Group exhibitions
2023
- #Faces, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, The Netherlands
2022
- DAF Cologne via OpenArtExchange, Cologne, Germany
2021
- ARX Africa 2021-2022 via Angolan Embassy/German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany)
- ST’ART Strasbourg via OpenArtExchange, France
- ART Laren via OpenArtExchange, Netherlands)
- Art Drive-in show Nachtbroetchen, Airport Bonn-Cologne via OpenArtExchange, Germany
2020
- Kaluandando.com, 3rd ed/nov 2020, GAV Galeria de Arte Virtual, Angola
- Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt via OpenArtExchange, Germany
- Roots, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
2019
- It’s the culture exhibition, The Crib-custard factory, Digbeth, Birmingham
2018
- We’re still at daycare 333, Adonis Fortunato Art Gallery, Luanda, Angola
- Contemporary exhibition Peterborough Museum Art Gallery, Peterborough, UK
- United by Painting-Mathews yard Gallery, London, UK
2017
- Tribute to 400 years of Benguela, Casca and Guilherme Manpuya- Hotel terminus, Benguela, Angola
- National Jaango, She Art Gallery, Luanda, Angola
- Presence is key, Adonis Fortunato Art Gallery, Luanda, Angola
- Kaluandando.com/ Portuguese Cultural Center at the Portuguese Embassy in Luanda), Luanda, Angola
- Kaluandando.com, Soap Factory, Luanda, Angola
Art installations on festivals
2017
- Etimba fest, Benguela, Angola
2016
- Children’s theatrical music, Atlantico cine theater, Luanda, Angola
- Rock on the Catumbela River, Benguela, Angola
2021
- The book of Casca, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands (coming soon)
2016
- EVIAVYO, Chiquitos, Coffee and Art, Benguela, Angola
2023
- #Faces, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, The Netherlands
2022
- DAF Cologne via OpenArtExchange, Cologne, Germany
2021
- ARX Africa 2021-2022 via Angolan Embassy/German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany)
- ST’ART Strasbourg via OpenArtExchange, France
- ART Laren via OpenArtExchange, Netherlands)
- Art Drive-in show Nachtbroetchen, Airport Bonn-Cologne via OpenArtExchange, Germany
2020
- Kaluandando.com, 3rd ed/nov 2020, GAV Galeria de Arte Virtual, Angola
- Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt via OpenArtExchange, Germany
- Roots, OpenArtExchange, Schiedam, Netherlands
2019
- It’s the culture exhibition, The Crib-custard factory, Digbeth, Birmingham
2018
- We’re still at daycare 333, Adonis Fortunato Art Gallery, Luanda, Angola
- Contemporary exhibition Peterborough Museum Art Gallery, Peterborough, UK
- United by Painting-Mathews yard Gallery, London, UK
2017
- Tribute to 400 years of Benguela, Casca and Guilherme Manpuya- Hotel terminus, Benguela, Angola
- National Jaango, She Art Gallery, Luanda, Angola
- Presence is key, Adonis Fortunato Art Gallery, Luanda, Angola
- Kaluandando.com/ Portuguese Cultural Center at the Portuguese Embassy in Luanda), Luanda, Angola
- Kaluandando.com, Soap Factory, Luanda, Angola