Lucio Liguori
Lucio Liguori is a renowned ceramicist, leading member of a famous family of craftsmen from Vietri. Born in 1958, after graduating from Salerno’s Art School he practised the trade working in the ceramic workshops of Vietri Sul Mare, later opening his own atelier in Raito.
His decorative and functional ceramic creations stand out for the use of deep colours and original geometrical patterns. He loves to experiment, both with moulding and decoration: he was the first to introduce the raku technique in Vietri, while also contributing to enriching the local iconographic heritage employing and reinventing traditional German figurative motifs, alongside abstract and geometric ornaments inspired by Escher and Guido Gambone’s style. Lucio Liguori is a master endowed with great artistic talent, able to combine tradition and innovation, refined aesthetics and functionality. In his pieces, he always includes a certain unique and unexpected element, able to generate emotion and wonder.
His artworks are characterized by the presence of typical elements derived from Vietri’s ceramic tradition, such as the famous sardines or the green copper and brown manganese enamels, always integrated with more contemporary feeling hints. He won the Prize “Viaggio attraverso la ceramica” (A Journey through ceramics) in 1979 and took part in Vallauris’ Ceramics Biennale in 2000. He was invited to artistic residencies programmes, exhibitions and competitions in the most important cities of ceramics tradition both in Italy and around Europe.
