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ART AND CREATION CONTINUOSLY DEVELOPING

Piero Turra is a versatile and ecletic artist, continously searching for new forms and languages to experiment. His artistic path is characterized by important passages which allowed him to reach a major maturity and artistic identity.
The first of this long list of steps has been signed by a specialization in artistic print in Urbino, which was and still is a fundamental and peculiar part of many of his artworks; it is particularly present in many of his acrilic paintings and his ingraving on boards, where the nimbleness and ability of his mark clearly merge together with a wide and and careful cromatic armony.
The second phase of his important artistic career is characterized by a diploma in trompe l'oeil received in Palazzi Spinelli, Florence, at the Institute for Arts and artistic Restoration, thank to which Piero Turra learnt the basic fondamentals of the prospective of the Renaissance and of the optical tridimensional illusion of both frescos and wall paintings. His feverish and unteneable desire of experimenting new forms and languages brings him toward the art od videos and photography (although minorily compared to his current pictoric production).
The source of the first one is his wish to transmit to the audience a codified and ermetic message, filtered only by his frantic and bizarre vision of reality, far away from the visual clarity and immediacy of his traditional paintings, while the second one comes from a kind of primordial journey towards memories and permanent feelings: misterious landscapes, endless horizons, faces, glimpses and cities impressed in the memory of the time.
In Piero Turra's production, there are several works which, in my opinion, stir a particular feeling of (estraneamento) from the surrounding reality: emblematic figures escaping a sudden flood, faces which seem to be ipnotized by some sort of magic, lost animals, flying monsters, aliens invasions coming from the sky... Everything is precariously moving in a scenario poor of horizons and trajectories, as if it was suspended in time and space, in a magic and surreal dimension. In a paper drawing, with a vaguely apocaliptic scenario, representing an overview of (avvenieristico) buildings (maybe contemporary skyscrapers), flown over by a darty way of aircrafts, missiles, or more far-fetchedly spatial orbiters, the first feeling while watching is that of being projected into a vortex of endless lines which follows a trajectory at the light speed and then that of being catapulted into another dimension, in a sort of travel into the future.
This mixture of feeling his due to Piero Turra's technique, who is able to unify the perspective deepness together with an immediate feeling of speed and dinamism.
If the quality of his graphic sign, revealing a hudge capability of compository sintesis and technical perfection merges in many drawings and engravings, in his paintings the core element is colour, characterized by sparkle and intense nuances, highlighted by the black delimiting line thickness which immediately rapes our visual attention.
Turra does not possess precise and absolute artistic models to which he can take inspiration; his poetic venue is due to his willingness to simply express what he feels, sees and imagines, which could be an unrealistic landscape, a portrait, a still life, regardless the kind of technique and the style utilized. In his endless search the coexistence of antique and modern, past and future are evident; although abstract and distinct among them they assume a particular meaning; they denote his sensibility towards human harmony and beauty, towards nature and all the rules governing the universe, nowadays forgotten and broken by humanity. This negative character becomes is depicted in Turra's paintings as both the actor and victim of his own self-destruction, living in apocalyptic and surreal scenarios where, together with his creations, such as cars, skyscrapers, robots, aircrafts he is overwhelmed by a powerful and giant tsunami that cancels everything on his way, in this meaningless life


Barbara Tamburro