Lucio Minigrilli

Lucio was born and raised in Tuscany in a valley between Cortona and Florence and was interested in the world of art since childhood. He started with pencil drawing lessons at the age of seven and grew up surrounded and influenced by masters and their masterpieces like the "David" of Michelangelo and many renaissance works of perfection and elegance. At the age of fourteen he made his first sculpture. He then studied the history of art for five years at a technical high school. Under the direction of two important Italian artists, he started to work with traditional materials such as marble from Carrara, gray stone from Tuscany (called pietra serena), clay and other sculpting materials. He has also studied the process of bronze fusion, but his preference is to work with stone.

Lucio has chosen the pseudonym "" because it means light in Latin. In Latin the letter V is pronounced the same as the letter U in Italian, or as the letters oo in English (as in spook). This name is derived from the actual name of the artist which is also a derivation of the Latin word for light.

. . . "What you see in a statue is a moment that is eternal. Capture that feeling of the moment and it will be expressed forever in your work".

His thinks there is a style that is realistic and based on the oldest Italian traditions; something that comes from Greek and Roman canons. All his work has the characteristics of dynamic movement on the space it occupies.

. . . "The material you work with has its own personality. It is crude and strong. Only with your art passing through an old path can you release the beauty, elegance and eternity from its marble prison".