His works in metal, exhibited in galleries in Europe and Latin America as well as in Cuba, are small, as if they were models that donrsquo;t lose their quality and which can be transformed to scale into enormous pieces. Born in 1954 in the small town of Florida, in the eastern province of Camaguuml;ey, this sculptor and painter began his artistic career in the provincial art school of Camaguuml;ey. Then he went to the National School of Arts and the Higher Arts Institute, both in Havana.
After he graduated in 1982, he was a professor of sculpture at the one hundred-year-old San Alejandro Academy and for several years at the Higher Arts Institute. His 27-year teaching career earned him the Pedagogical Merit Diploma.
An excellent conversationalist, Casas doubles as a creator in the design of theatrical scenery, which he began with the successful setting for the work La puta respetuosa (The respectful prostitute). Since then he has participated in the staging of other projects with singers and in performances with groups of Cuban comedians.
Standing out among his overseas exhibitions are those in the Kino Zoo (Fulda City) and Tabularasa (Halle) Galleries, both in Germany, the Borderío Gallery in Chile, the Havana Gallery in Zurich, and the Chica Gallery in Vienna. Meanwhile, standing out among his recent exhibitions in Cuba is the so-called Escultofierro (Iron Sculpture), an exhibition of the Tenth Havana Biennial (2009).
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