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Born in 1951 to a family deeply supportive of artistic pursuits, Carlo LoCascio received qualifications in art and architecture in his native Italy, where he was influenced by the the avant-garde Happening and Behavioral movements of the late 1960s .  Of greater impact was the focus of these movements on the process of the transformation of matter to uncover abstract meaning.

After Academy of Art, LoCascio received in 1980 a Master in Architecture from the University in Palermo, and began applying this material focus to the built forum as an architectural designer in a continuing career that has included collaborations in England, Italy and United States. Throughout LoCascio's design work, his art background is apparent: the same lines that before expressed  abstract meanings become the main elements of a dialogue between the elements of the built form, interrelationships among structure, volume, color and texture are priorities.

Although a successful architect, LoCascio sought  more intensely a return  to the abstract meanings for a research in reality never interrupted, but now without the necessary mediation of client or corporate interests inherent to the design field. In 1998, he resettled in Chicago and shifted his attention more exclusively on creating art that searched  through and celebrated the hidden meaning in the everyday life of the human soul.

His figurative work highlights and allusions inherent in fixed forms utilizing traditional paint media; hinting at inscrutable mysteries and secrets that are ever-present just below the surface; for LoCascio, it's the form below the surface where true meaning lies. The work is large-scale, with mixed oil and acrylic media imparting the abstract messages across large canvasses . However, the artist prefers for patrons to make up their own minds about the meaning inherent in his body of work.

He attempts literally to embody the underlying forms that reside in the minds of ordinary people; movement and color swirl inside and around askew human forms as if to symbolize the inner confusion and unrest that all of us try our best to hide from public view.

"Ultimately, any expression is abstract, and it's in the abstract where art resides", said Carlo LoCascio, "My intention is for people to find in my art the abstract elements of everyday life that  hide in plain sight until someone asks you to take a deeper look".

Michael Doyle  -  Chicago Sun Times

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