Turi Avola was born in Herford (Germany) on 09th August 1977. When he was five, his family moved to Giarratana a small town in the south east of Sicily, their homeland.
This event generated in him an explosion of creativity and the result was an interest in many art forms.
Today he’s living in Rome and in the early 2000s he was a painter and during his studies about that, he was particularly fascinated by the Dadaists and Surrealists. Turi started to take photos of different girls/models to get inspiration, but he has interested about their individual personality too, to create paintings.
It was 2012 when, after a photo shooting located in an abandoned farmstead, the only outdoor one, he came across some photos that already were works of art in it-self; they didn’t need to be completed with brushes. Such occurrence created in him a huge inner conflict: “painter or photographer”?
The in-depth study of artists such as Man Ray, Bellmer, Woodman, Witkin, Bunuel, Svankmyer and so on, allows him to experience a breakthrough in his creative phase and also gave him the urge to use the camera as a meaning of expression.
His own art is an obsession for him, as for most of the artists. Turi need to create with his camera to develop his vision and he need to free his mind through his art.
Turi focuses is attention on the creation of photographic series, 2015 was the turn of Game in the Box where is possible to admire the movement of bodies sectioned by plays of light inside a wooden box, it was exhibited for the first time in the Cell63 Gallery of Berlin.
But we must wait a year after to admire the most representative work of the artistic path of Turi Avola, On 20 March 2016 publishes Excessus Mentis twelve expressions of the state of ecstasy. From the very beginning many of Italian and international magazines talk about Excessus Mentis, thus starting also the distribution of the catalogue (the holy pictures box).
Turi today is working on a new project involving more than 20 interpreters but as done previously, he will keep it secret until its publication date.
This event generated in him an explosion of creativity and the result was an interest in many art forms.
Today he’s living in Rome and in the early 2000s he was a painter and during his studies about that, he was particularly fascinated by the Dadaists and Surrealists. Turi started to take photos of different girls/models to get inspiration, but he has interested about their individual personality too, to create paintings.
It was 2012 when, after a photo shooting located in an abandoned farmstead, the only outdoor one, he came across some photos that already were works of art in it-self; they didn’t need to be completed with brushes. Such occurrence created in him a huge inner conflict: “painter or photographer”?
The in-depth study of artists such as Man Ray, Bellmer, Woodman, Witkin, Bunuel, Svankmyer and so on, allows him to experience a breakthrough in his creative phase and also gave him the urge to use the camera as a meaning of expression.
His own art is an obsession for him, as for most of the artists. Turi need to create with his camera to develop his vision and he need to free his mind through his art.
Turi focuses is attention on the creation of photographic series, 2015 was the turn of Game in the Box where is possible to admire the movement of bodies sectioned by plays of light inside a wooden box, it was exhibited for the first time in the Cell63 Gallery of Berlin.
But we must wait a year after to admire the most representative work of the artistic path of Turi Avola, On 20 March 2016 publishes Excessus Mentis twelve expressions of the state of ecstasy. From the very beginning many of Italian and international magazines talk about Excessus Mentis, thus starting also the distribution of the catalogue (the holy pictures box).
Turi today is working on a new project involving more than 20 interpreters but as done previously, he will keep it secret until its publication date.