Flying Turi - Loggia Square

This type of subject can be classified within the metaphysical aesthetic. The artistic movement founded by Giorgio de Chirico reclaims images that already exist, familiar to the collective imagination. However, it creates an effect of alienation through the process of displacement—the sudden appearance of an object outside its usual context—or through condensation, the fusion of multiple objects into a single entity. Metaphysical art is also distinguished by the ostentatiously illusory nature of its images. This work, an example of metaphysical experimentation by the multifaceted artist Turi Volnate, fits perfectly within these aesthetic canons, presenting the plausible yet mysterious situation of objects arranged in a room, in an immobile and silent atmosphere. All this is achieved with a hyperrealist, provocative, and illusory language.

The subject of the work, though inspired by a dramatic event in Italian history, is depicted by Turi Volante in a symbolic and metaphysical manner. For this reason, even formally, in this painting he adopts a predominantly hyperrealist language. Hyperrealism aims for a totally objective representation of reality: the artist's desire is to reproduce what he sees without any interpretation. In this sense, the hyperrealist aesthetic also constitutes a paradox, often consciously sought by artists. Indeed, thanks also to the use of highly aggressive techniques, inspired by the world of advertising, and the use of bright color palettes, a rendering of the naturalistic element is achieved so pure as to appear illusory, deliberately artificial. In the case of this painting, the choice of a lucidly objective language to express a dramatic event is the result of a deliberate dissonance. The presence of life is minimized, delegated solely to the existence of objects that symbolically recall the event. One therefore perceives a sense of immobility, of unreal suspension.

Turi Volanti was born in Floridia in 1930. Self-taught, he graduated from the Art School in Palermo. He attended the University of Architecture in the same city, but only a year later moved to Milan. Coming from a very modest background, the young Volanti was forced to abandon the Polytechnic to attend and complete his painting studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Within a few years of attending, Volanti immediately demonstrated his talents in an initial period of Existential Neorealism in the 1950s. His painting of these years was characterized by the world of the poor people of Sicily, influenced by the literary influences of Verga and Guttuso. In the 1960s, his second pictorial phase, which met with enthusiastic public, critical, and commercial acclaim, drew on the poetics of figurative and informal neo-expressionism. The third period began in the late 1960s: after concluding his Expressionist-Informal cycle, the artist gave his painting a metaphysical, figurative, and rational representation, turning his research toward Greek myths in conflict with the consumerist myths of today's world. Turi Volanti took his own life in 2018.

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