Francisco Casas Silva

Francisco Casas
Francisco Casas in Buenos Aires
Born
Francisco Elías Casas Silva

(1959-01-19) January 19, 1959
Santiago de Chile, Chile
OccupationsVisual artist
Writer

Francisco Elías Casas Silva (born 19 January 1959) is a Chilean visual artist and writer. Together with Pedro Lemebel he was part of the duo Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis.[1][2]

Biography

Francisco Elías Casas Silva was born on 19 January 1959 to Elías Domingo Casas Cifuentes and Inés Rebeca Silva Lepe.[1] In 1987, when he was a student of literature, he formed the artistic duo Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis ("The Mares of the Apocalypse") with the writer Pedro Lemebel.[3]

The first purported appearance of the duo was during the Santiago International Book Fair, where they dressed as volunteers of CEMA Chile, distributing pamphlets about AIDS.[4] Their first appearance on record happened on 22 October 1988, during the awarding of the Pablo Neruda Prize to poet Raúl Zurita in La Chascona. Lemebel and Casas appeared during the ceremony and offered a crown of thorns to Zurita, which was not accepted by him.[3][4]

On 21 August 1989, the duo performed a piece titled De qué se ríe, presidente ("What he laughed at, President") at Teatro Cariola (Cariola Theater) during a meeting of intellectuals with presidential candidate Patricio Aylwin.[5] The following year, Aylwin would become the first democratically elected President of Chile after the end of the military dictatorship.[6] On that occasion, despite not having being invited, the duo took the stage wearing heels and feathers, and raised a banner that read Homosexuales por el cambio ("Homosexuals for change"). As they left the stage, Casas rushed toward then-senator and future president of Chile, Ricardo Lagos, kissing him on the mouth.[3][7]

In 1991, Casas published his first literary work, Sodoma mía ("My sodom"), consisting of a poem in which he expresses his vision of reality contrasted with social issues such as AIDS.[8]

The visual artworks that Casas has developed have been included in collections such as the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Lima Art Museum.[9] Some of the exhibitions he has presented include Ese'eja in 2016,[10] La Dama de Cao junto a Silvana Pestana ("The lady of Cao with Silvana Pestana") in 2017,[11] Las metáforas quebradas de Yakuruna y otras Amazonias junto a Julio Urbina ("The broken metaphors of Yakuruna and other Amazonias with Julio Urbina") in 2020,[12] and Malena canta el tango ("Malena sings tango") in 2023.[13]

In 2009, Casas publicly supported the presidential candidacy of Marco Enriquez-Ominami, founder of the Chilean Progressive Party.[14] In 2013, he settled in the Barranco District of Lima. In September 2022, he began a journey through Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile with Joanna Reposi, director of the documentary Lemebel, to film a movie.[15]

Literary works

  • Sodoma mía (1991)[8]
  • Yo, yegua (2004)[16]
  • Romance de la inmaculada llanura (2008)[17]
  • Romance del arcano sin nombre (2009)[13]
  • Partitura (2015)[18]

References

  1. 1 2 Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (19 January 1959). Inscripción de Nacimiento, núm. 847, circunscripción Portales.
  2. ↑ Bahamondes, Pedro (16 December 2017). "Francisco Casas, artista y escritor chileno: "No pretendo convertirme en la Doris Dana de Pedro Lemebel"" [Francisco Casas, Chilean artist and writer: "I do not intend to become Pedro Lemebel's Doris Dana"]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 Memoria Chilena. "Pedro Lemebel: "Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis"" [Pedro Lemebel: "The Yeguas of the Apocalypse"] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  4. 1 2 Mena, Catalina (20 April 2018). "Tiempo de Yeguas" [Time of the Mares]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  5. ↑ García, Javier (5 September 2013). "Lemebel, el cronista provocador, gana el Premio José Donoso" [Lemebel, the provocative chronicler, wins the José Donoso Prize] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  6. ↑ Memoria Chilena. "Pedro Lemebel: Cronología" [Pedro Lemebel: Chronology] (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Mena, Catalina (20 April 2018). "Tiempo de Yeguas" [Time of Yeguas]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
  8. 1 2 Dávalos, Eugenio (1992). "Sodoma mía" [My Sodom] (PDF). Simpson Siete (in Spanish). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  9. ↑ "Francisco Casas Silva" [Francisco Casas Silva]. Cultura.gob.cl (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  10. ↑ "Francisco Pancho Casas vuelve a mostrar en Chile" [Francisco Pancho Casas returns to exhibit in Chile]. Artishock (in Spanish). 5 July 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  11. ↑ De Sarmiento, Nicolás (6 November 2017). "La Dama de Cao Rituales ancestrales en la obra colaborative de Pancho Casas y Silvana Pestana" [The Lady of Cao: Ancestral rituals in the collaborative work of Pancho Casas and Silvana Pestana]. Artishock (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  12. ↑ Richard, Nelly (25 September 2020). "Derivas Amazonicas en tiempos de pandemia" [Amazonian drifts in times of pandemic]. Artishock (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  13. 1 2 "Malena canta el tango de Francisco Casas" [Malena Sings Tango by Francisco Casas]. D21 Proyectos de Arte (in Spanish). 10 November 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  14. ↑ León, Gonzalo (28 June 2020). "Francisco Casas: Pedro Lemebel no era comunista" [Francisco Casas: Pedro Lemebel was not communist]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 July 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  15. ↑ "La última Yegua: La historia tras la road movie de Francisco Casas a bordo de una combi por el sur de Latinoamérica" [The Last Yegua: The story behind Francisco Casas' road movie across South America]. The Clinic (in Spanish). 12 October 2022. Archived from the original on 7 November 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  16. ↑ "Yo, yegua" [I, Mare]. Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  17. ↑ "Romance de la inmaculada llanura" [Romance of the Immaculate Plain]. Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  18. ↑ "Partitura" [Score]. Biblioteca Nacional de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 February 2024.
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