Oil painting on tablet depicting Cassatella Catanese "Minne di Sant'Agata". Tribute to Sant'Agata. Signed ...

Oil painting on tablet depicting Cassatella Catanese "Minne di Sant'Agata". Tribute to Sant'Agata. Signed on the bottom left Lucia Ragusa and dated on the back 2020
Cm 23x24.5
Lucia Ragusa, painter, sculptor and mosaicist, was born in Catania, where he currently lives and has an active artistic study. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania and Ravenna. Later he specialized in Restoration in Florence at Palazzo Spinelli. He was a teacher of sculpture and decoration at the Abadir - Academy of Fine Arts and Restoration of Catania. For over twenty-five years it has been staying permanently in some of the most prestigious art galleries. He has collected personal and collective, national and international exhibitions. His works are part of public and private collections. The inspiration of Lucia Ragusa is an affective arrangement that is personal investigation on a physical dimension. Energy and delicacy in borderless spaces invaded by soft colors, where the rules of an ordinary description are measured with an unusual composition, built on the principle of the underlying and detail. She wrote several historians and art critics including Arnaldo Romans Brizzi, Franco Sarnari, Rosanna Ricci, Paolo Giansiracusa, Luca Lombardo, Giuseppina Root, Elisa Mandarà ...



Text by Rosanna Ricci: Editor critical museums San Domenico - Forlì - curator of the "Art" section of the rest of the Carlino.
What defines the work of Lucia Ragusa is the experience. His curriculum is the testimony:
Diploma in Drawing painting, qualifications in archaeological restoration, in mosaic, ceramic, in sculpture.
He is currently a lecturer of decoration and sculpture, he also has a twenty-five-year expositive path. However, Lucia Ragusa is not only an expert executer of well-made forms, but it is above all an artist who knows how to donate, to those who observe his works, the same vitality and the strong charge of emotions that she feels in front of a landscape, ad A flower or an object.
All this starts a free and fruitful creativity, but always rigorous in the aesthetic proposal ......
.... The art dedication offers Lucia Ragusa the suggestive possibility of confronting nature and, at the same time, to reflect on the importance of art as a medium to communicate personal emotions and interpretations on what reality offers. It follows that the technical ability and an obvious sensitivity in the use of color and light offer implications full of poetry ......
... These are, in other words the autobiography of Lucia Ragusa, of his rigor in making art, but also of the silent motions of his sensitive soul.
Ricci Ricci