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Franco Lo Cascio: His brilliant thirty-year activity of artistic work testified by hundreds of exhibitions and by his presence in Italy and abroad makes Franco Lo Cascio an emblematic name of the contemporary painting in Sicily. Having got his school-leaving certificate in a liceo specializing in art subjects and his teachers’ diploma with full marks, he was appointed full professor of drawing and history of art at Palermo University. When he was very young took actively part in the insular artistic life, exhibiting in the most important shows, and then he went to Roma, Bologna and Milan, which allowed him to get in contact with the most significant pictorial avant-gardes. Franco Lo Cascio has gone beyond the limit of the naturalistic southern representation and he has joined the neo-figuration movement, so gaining a European reputation. These were the same years when several writers and the most qualified critics in Italy (Vito Apuleio ,Ugo Moretti, Michele Prisco,Ugo Attardi ,etc.) were interested in his painting and published articles about it in specialized daily and review. Through Franco Lo Cascio’s pictorial outlook it clearly appears the deeply human and social meaning of his art that has been awarded in Roma ,La Spezia, Bologna and Milan several times .He has drawn many murals in many Italian places .I n Vitulano during a murals competition that he won ,he gained “the freedom of the city” thanks to his high artistic merits .He is a designer and his drawings are in many books and publications. Italian television has often been interested in his painting. He has gained over 200 prizes in many artistic performances. Recently he has given two big pictures to the Curia of Monreale: ”Ultima Cena” (The Last Supper”), it is 400x200 metres and now it can be seen inside S. Teresa di Lisieux’s church in Monreale. His works are in many public and private collections in Italy and abroad.

"Seduzione" 70x50

"Case in collina" 70x50

"Natura morta con spighe" 60x50