Lucio Chiurulla
Lucio Chiurulla was born in 1972 in Perugia. He currently has his studio near the Trasimeno Lake in the Italian region of Umbria, where he lives and works.
A sculptor of twenty-five year experience with marbles, granites and stones, after his studies at the Art School and Accademia of Belle Arti in Perugia (Italy), where he also studied graphics, print and painting, he started his own artistic experience through an autonomous research in sculpting.
Lucio begins sculpting in 1990, starting a research path that goes from Ancient Roman, Greek and Medieval statues and mosaics to modern sculpture. In so doing he has acquired skills and specific carving techniques on marbles and stones. He made different kinds of artworks that go from high-relief portraits and torsos to mosaics, through which he learned and understood the traditional sculpting methods used in the past so that now he can re-interpret them in his own works.
He finds this kind of research - so far from the modern way to conceive art - very stimulating and inspirational; from it he gets ideas and answers that lead to his creations; even though his pieces of art can be symmetrically at the opposite, they represent a parallel between past and future. The technique he uses allows him to roughly hew his materials until he reaches an utterly essential form that becomes permeated with energy.
He prefers to express himself with marbles and stones which he constantly carves. Lucio can transform marble so that it becomes a delicate epidemic layer, creating a veil that neither hides the tensions and frictions nor the acts of love and impulses of the daily flow of life.
He made several exhibitions, among them exhibitions organized by Ken’s Art Gallery in Florence and West Palm Beach (1999-2001), American Consulate in Florence (2001), Archaeological Park in Populonia (Tuscany), Cavour Art Festival in Terni (2001), Galleria il Sole Centro d’Arte in Perugia (2003); Palazzo Morelli Fine Art in Todi (Umbria) (2005-2011), Carla Mancini Art Gallery in Perugia (2016-2017).
A sculptor of twenty-five year experience with marbles, granites and stones, after his studies at the Art School and Accademia of Belle Arti in Perugia (Italy), where he also studied graphics, print and painting, he started his own artistic experience through an autonomous research in sculpting.
Lucio begins sculpting in 1990, starting a research path that goes from Ancient Roman, Greek and Medieval statues and mosaics to modern sculpture. In so doing he has acquired skills and specific carving techniques on marbles and stones. He made different kinds of artworks that go from high-relief portraits and torsos to mosaics, through which he learned and understood the traditional sculpting methods used in the past so that now he can re-interpret them in his own works.
He finds this kind of research - so far from the modern way to conceive art - very stimulating and inspirational; from it he gets ideas and answers that lead to his creations; even though his pieces of art can be symmetrically at the opposite, they represent a parallel between past and future. The technique he uses allows him to roughly hew his materials until he reaches an utterly essential form that becomes permeated with energy.
He prefers to express himself with marbles and stones which he constantly carves. Lucio can transform marble so that it becomes a delicate epidemic layer, creating a veil that neither hides the tensions and frictions nor the acts of love and impulses of the daily flow of life.
He made several exhibitions, among them exhibitions organized by Ken’s Art Gallery in Florence and West Palm Beach (1999-2001), American Consulate in Florence (2001), Archaeological Park in Populonia (Tuscany), Cavour Art Festival in Terni (2001), Galleria il Sole Centro d’Arte in Perugia (2003); Palazzo Morelli Fine Art in Todi (Umbria) (2005-2011), Carla Mancini Art Gallery in Perugia (2016-2017).
