Ceramica Ronca

Lucio Ronca, master of ceramics, is a creative known all over the world and active in different artistic experiments. Born on July 12, 1958, he develops his formation in the large shops of Vietri sul Mare. The originality of his art, which ranges from ceramic to design and painting to sculpture, consists in knowing how to reconcile the ancient style with the modern one, through the recovery of traditional shapes and colors and their rereading in an innovative key, through captivating contaminations. Léger's follower, Ronca has been able to give his art a gradual and wise evolution, up to the typical forms of cubism. His works of art are appreciated and requested by an international clientele and by different personalities from the world of entertainment and fashion. He has numerous personal exhibitions made in Italy and abroad. We remember the exhibitions at the Carrousel du Louvre, on the Eiffel Tower and the Uffizi. His art is never taken for granted or magazine since the result of a continuous and in -depth search for new shapes and colors, of new subjects and new stories to tell that they have always made him a restless artist. No work is the same as another, no story is repeated, no color can be replicated. When looking at his painting he looks beyond what is the physical work, you climb over any kind of mental stop and travel with the imagination. The thought for Ronca has always been a fundamental point in his works that follow the theories of Sigmund Freud through parallel streets. Lucio Ronca is also a master of art at the Ceramica Ronca laboratory in Vietri sul Mare, where students of different nationalities follow with interest and enthusiasm his lessons made of technique and passion. He was among the 70 international artists chosen by Josè Van Roy Dalì and among the 19 Italians who in October 2014 represented our country, on the occasion of the anniversary of the great Universal Exhibition in Paris, inside the Eiffel Tower. The Dalai Lama, Alberto Bevilacqua, Giovanni Spadolini, Luciano De Crescenzo, Alessandro Meluzzi, Rocco Barocco, Diego della Palma, Dacia Maraini dedicated a phrase to him and Vittorio Sgarbi is among his admirers. Before becoming a master of art, Lucio Ronca, made it of a appropriate; At 7 he already shaped his clay in a attic near the house. Then the diploma at the Art Institute of Salerno, paying for his studies, 20 years employed by other ceramists and finally the opening of his laboratory. Also sensitive to the therapeutic commitments of art has been collaborating for years with the prestigious ""New Salernitana medical school"". An all -round artist, capable of alternating painting, sculpture and ceramic, united in what is one of its most distinctive creations: the ceramic picture, where the canvas also becomes a work of ceramic art. As ""Flying for ..."", the creation exposed to Paris, depicting a stylized butterfly painted with its innovative colors. Lucio Ronca, in fact, uses unique and personal colors that give his ceramic works a glass and metallic effect at the same time thanks to the gold and silver pigments. In 2017 he became provincial president of the CNA (National Confederation of Artisans) of Salerno while in 2022 the President of the Republic Sergio Matterella, together with Mario Draghi, conferred on him the honor of Officer to Merit of the Italian Republic.