1934, San Antonio de los Baños / 2002, Paris.

Ethnographer, archaeologist, painter, draftsman and audiovisual producer.

His name is strange to many, but he is one of the artists to know in contemporary Cuban art. For decades he developed a vast work, focused on the mythical and iconographic universe created by the Taino culture in our archipelago.

Early on, at 17 years old, he worked as a cartoonist and publicist for the Siboney Agency, and four years later he visited the animation studios of United Productions of America. In 1956, together with his first wife, he made the exhibition Draw a smile, together with the book of cartoons of the same name.

He was the first director, between 1960 and 1967, of the Animation Studies of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC).

He is a graphic artist par excellence and a fine cultivator of humor, director of Dolls for Adults, he dusted off and reproduced a large part of the pictographs that we currently find in caves and caves scattered around the Island.

In 1985 he began a long series that ended in 1992 in Paris and called Carbonadas consisting of large expressionist drawings made with the charcoal technique.

The Museum of Fine Arts and the Wifredo Lam Center, hoard works by this important artist.