Lucio Ranucci, one of the exponents of the artistic current known as " realist cubism " was born in 1925 in Perledo (then in the province of Como, now Lecco). His father and mother were doctors and therefore forced to move often for work, so Lucio and his sister Silvia spend their childhood in the various conduits between north and south Italy.  In 1933 his father Bernardino died and his mother and sister moved to Milan leaving Lucio in a college in Perugia, where studied for eight years.  At the beginning of 1943 Lucio Ranucci volunteered with the Italian military contingent for North Africa. In May of the same year he was taken prisoner in Tunisia and returned to Italy in January 1945, as an interpreter for the Anglo-American troops. After the war, Lucio Ranucci joined his family in Milan where he worked as a journalist, but in 1947 driven by his desire for knowledge, he left for Argentina.   Lucio Ranucci painted messages of denunciation of poverty, of the abuse and lack of freedom of the South American populations and in 1949, the year of his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Marini in Lima, Peru, he exhibited almost every year in Ecuador, Colombia, Nicaragua and, for the last forty years, in the United States, Italy and Europe.  In 1950 Ranucci moved to Ecuador, where he put to good use his deep culture and passion for theater. He worked as a Director and Screenwriter for the Theater of the University of Quito, while he exhibited in Colombia and Jamaica.    A member of the Murales school, Lucio Ranucci, like Diego Rivera , is convinced of the need to "cry out" social truth with painting, as Picasso did painting Guernica.   The technique that Lucio Ranucci uses in his paintings is that of oil and acrylic, with the addition, sometimes, of sand and earth. The human figures, Lucio Ranucci's favorite subjects, are static, often taken from the front, they look like wooden mannequins, but, paradoxically, those geometric and cubist shapes express a great spirituality and deep emotions.