Casca

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.