Carlos García Huergo graduated in mathematics from the University of Havana. In 1990, his mother died suddenly while he was pursuing studies in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) as part of exchange programs between Eastern Bloc countries. Following this event, Huergo began exhibiting severe behavioral disorders, including aggression toward colleagues, and had to be repatriated to Cuba.
Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he was hospitalized. Shortly after the onset of his illness, he began drawing. He works mainly on cardboard packaging and sometimes on pieces of wooden tables. His paintings incorporate a multitude of signs, languages, codes, and mathematical—even Kabbalistic—formulas, which he refers to with humor: “All this is nothing but an insignificant joke, a thought that slips away, nothing more. I have only one soul, no other. […] I must preserve my secrets!” The history of his country is omnipresent in his work, where the pain of an existence exacerbated by an oppressive political regime is also expressed, more or less overtly.