Rigo

Cuba, 1961 - 2025

Guillermo Rigoberto Casola Marcos, born in Havana in 1961, is better known under the name Rigo. His parents and siblings, like him, suffer from mental disorders; one of his brothers has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. But Rigo has been drawing since childhood, and when he does not give his drawings away, he throws them out. His gouaches attempt to express his daily life, the feelings of a poor Cuban—half artist, half madman—yet not without a sense of humor. Halfway between pop painting and illustration, these little scenes unfold narratively like a storyboard. His very confident graphic language owes much to his talent as a colorist.