Antonio Tascona CM RCA (16 March 1926 – 28 May 2006) was a Canadian artist of Italian heritage, best known for his abstract constructions featuring metallic panels made of aluminum, steel, resin, and industrial paints and lacquers.
Tascona's employment in the aircraft industry as a technician taught him the techniques used in his mature work featuring geometric abstraction.
Tascona was born the fifteenth of sixteen children in the predominantly francophone town of St Boniface, Manitoba, before it was incorporated into Winnipeg in 1971.
[3] After receiving his diploma, he continued his education at the University of Manitoba School of Art and was there exposed to other modernist movements such as Vorticism.
[5] Utilizing the skills he learned in the aircraft industry, Tascona began in the late 1960s and would continue throughout the 70's and 80's to produce large format constructions built from incised metal sheets painted with industrial strength paints and lacquers giving these works a sculptural, frieze-like quality while still possessing certain modernist formal elements.