CARACAS (VENEZUELA), 1993
Cacho is a Venezuelan and Italian artist who uses light, shadows, and space as a means to create volume from geometric forms. His installations and artwork consist of arrangements of welded metal elements into geometric volumes, which are suspended in place. His work questions the concept of form, space, movement, and time and it’s often associated with the study of color and contemplation of impermanence to question our emotions.
His work is influenced by the Light and Space movement and his love for minimalism which emerged as an architect while studying in San Francisco, California. In college, he fell in love with Mies Van der Rohe's “Less is more” quote, he often referenced Louis Kahn's approach to light and shadow in space in his projects and was inspired by Le Corbusier’s take on modernism. He worked on architectural projects with Norman Foster and Fernando Romero in which he understood the power of scale and the study of th