Jose Antonio Scaco. "Landscape". Crayons on paper. Hand signed. 1996. 35x50 cm. 25x35 cm without the mat.
He was born in Mendoza in 1930 and died in the same city on April 16, 2017. After some forays into technical drawing and at the Open Air Sunday School of Drawing and Painting, directed by Vicente Lahir Estrella, he studied at the Provincial School of Fine Arts of Mendoza graduating in 1970, later being a teacher at the same institution. He participated in more than one hundred 100 collectives in Mendoza and other cities in Argentina. He exhibited individually at the Zulema Zoireff de Mendoza gallery in 1978 and 1982, in Buenos Aires, Spain, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, Emiliano Guiñazú Casa de Fader Museum in 1991 and 2010 and Espacio Contemporáneo de Arte in 2005. He attended more than one hundred collective . He started late but he quickly acquired the technique and in a few years he achieved the style that identifies him. The simple landscapes of his beginnings were transformed into surreal scenes and then returned to them with another approach, with greater light divisions and details, in a baroque process of arduous preparation. (Eduardo Baliari; Andrés Cáceres, Diario Los Andes, October 25, 2005; Mercedes Fernández, Diario Los Andes, September 3, 2016.
