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 Italian artist Roberto Lucato is no stranger to new challenges. With an extensive array of visual styles from sculptural wall reliefs to abstract vistas and illustrative narratives, his body of work is vast and varied. It was with this continual sense of pushing himself in new directions that he has used to create an inspiring and impressive oveture. Inspired by his own journey through life, Lucato’s work takes its primary focus on the form of people and culture. Lucato’s artwork takes a psychological perspective of the “other.” Drawing on images from day-to-day life Lucato’s work highlights both the highs and lows, contrasts and similarities between human relationships by producing morphed images that combine literal representation with metaphor. His own relationships clearly inform his paintings and unique color palette. He layers colors to create the razor-sharp and gauzy, soft textures that coexist in his work, best exemplified in his piece entitled Senza titolo. His colorful blending of figuration with abstraction reveals his physical involvement in the work—paint has been applied with passion, leaving behind a verifiable artistic signature as testimony for the viewer. Lucato’s striking paintings draw us into an enigmatic and sensual world of fantasy, seduction, and spirit. His work features a variety of styles such as Surrealist figurative work, luscious quasi-abstraction, and folksy still life. Lucato’s work often appears formalist in its concerns; the artist is equally drawn to isolated and quiet places—as he is to crowds and chaos. The one strand linking the various facets of Lucato’s work is his overwhelming sense of fluidity, swelling brushstroke, and his sumptuous approach to applying paint on canvas.
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