RAPISARDA TURI
Turi Rapisarda is an artist outside the box, free spirit and anarchist. A photographer with a thousand talents, Turi Rapisarda undermines the clichés of the idea of a portrait. His photographs elude the separation between public and private, and showcase a cultural platform that combines artistic expression, diversity and personal relationships. Turi Rapisarda’s photographic images are based on sharing and reflecting on themes related to ethics, representation, the energy of doing something for a reason, for a feeling and for a community. A pure and romantic vision that constantly returns throughout its journey where, with the care and lightness of a free and anarchic approach, it reveals the dramatic complexity of an uncomfortable world. The subjects of his photographs move with extreme freedom in front of the lens, as if they did not perceive the judging presence of the photographer.
Rapisarda thus implements an explosive narrative of certain types of humanity, of mental and existential states, in a relationship of trust with “his people”, captured in a fragment of maximum exposure and vulnerability. The protagonists of his universe and his point of view are portrayed with their characteristics of fragility and uniqueness, in a poetic, personal and political way, which is built on time, on affections, on impulses, on disappointments. His work began many years ago and has its roots in a past rich in experiences, lived intensely and boldly, yet always with extreme ethical and aesthetic rigor. In 1982 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, Scenography section. The following year he founded, together with some critics and artists, the VSV Cultural Association, a launching pad for young talents and an artistic point of reference in the cultural fabric of Turin. Interested in art therapy, he has curated several projects, creating four videos for the Health Education Service of the Turin ASL. In 1996 he opened a private art studio, where he sporadically teaches Fine Art Photography to small groups of students. He has taken part in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including “Turi Rapisarda” (Centro d’Arte Contemporanea L. Pecci, Prato, 1995), “Il tempo di Beuys” (Galleria Nova, Rome, 1995), “Equinozio” (Castello di Rivara, Turin, 1997), “Rave Mutation 001” (Galleria Siberie, Amsterdam, 1999), “I Sovversivi, art at the price of CDs” with Davide Bramante (Galleria La Veronica, Modica, 2007 ), “I Sovversivi” with Davide Bramante (Galleria Art Up, Viterbo, 2008) and “Entourage” (Galleria Dieffe, Turin, 2009).
He conceived and created in collaboration with the artist Simona Galeotti the self-managed exhibition “Daimon1” in the former cemetery of San Pietro in Vincoli in Turin (2006) which became a series of exhibitions on the invisible and marginality inspired by the Genius Loci, followed by “Daimon2” former mental hospital in Collegno (2007), “Daimon3” former prison Le Nuove in Turin (2009). In 2024 he presented the volume documenting the collaborative photographic project “Stories of Specters and Ghosts” at the Turin International Book Fair.
Turi Rapisarda has also organized exhibitions of young artists, photography courses, meetings and cultural debates, challenging, as an inexhaustible rebel, bourgeois clichés, easy and consumerist choices, abhorring the infamous art “market”, even putting it up for sale in non-institutional places his works, portraits of great personalities from the world of culture, framed in unsuspecting times and places starting from the mid-1970s.
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Turi Rapisarda is an artist outside the box, free spirit and anarchist. A photographer with a thousand talents, Turi Rapisarda undermines the clichés of the idea of a portrait. His photographs elude the separation between public and private, and showcase a cultural platform that combines artistic expression, diversity and personal relationships. Turi Rapisarda’s photographic images are based on sharing and reflecting on themes related to ethics, representation, the energy of doing something for a reason, for a feeling and for a community. A pure and romantic vision that constantly returns throughout its journey where, with the care and lightness of a free and anarchic approach, it reveals the dramatic complexity of an uncomfortable world. The subjects of his photographs move with extreme freedom in front of the lens, as if they did not perceive the judging presence of the photographer.
Rapisarda thus implements an explosive narrative of certain types of humanity, of mental and existential states, in a relationship of trust with “his people”, captured in a fragment of maximum exposure and vulnerability. The protagonists of his universe and his point of view are portrayed with their characteristics of fragility and uniqueness, in a poetic, personal and political way, which is built on time, on affections, on impulses, on disappointments. His work began many years ago and has its roots in a past rich in experiences, lived intensely and boldly, yet always with extreme ethical and aesthetic rigor. In 1982 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, Scenography section. The following year he founded, together with some critics and artists, the VSV Cultural Association, a launching pad for young talents and an artistic point of reference in the cultural fabric of Turin. Interested in art therapy, he has curated several projects, creating four videos for the Health Education Service of the Turin ASL. In 1996 he opened a private art studio, where he sporadically teaches Fine Art Photography to small groups of students. He has taken part in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including “Turi Rapisarda” (Centro d’Arte Contemporanea L. Pecci, Prato, 1995), “Il tempo di Beuys” (Galleria Nova, Rome, 1995), “Equinozio” (Castello di Rivara, Turin, 1997), “Rave Mutation 001” (Galleria Siberie, Amsterdam, 1999), “I Sovversivi, art at the price of CDs” with Davide Bramante (Galleria La Veronica, Modica, 2007 ), “I Sovversivi” with Davide Bramante (Galleria Art Up, Viterbo, 2008) and “Entourage” (Galleria Dieffe, Turin, 2009).
He conceived and created in collaboration with the artist Simona Galeotti the self-managed exhibition “Daimon1” in the former cemetery of San Pietro in Vincoli in Turin (2006) which became a series of exhibitions on the invisible and marginality inspired by the Genius Loci, followed by “Daimon2” former mental hospital in Collegno (2007), “Daimon3” former prison Le Nuove in Turin (2009). In 2024 he presented the volume documenting the collaborative photographic project “Stories of Specters and Ghosts” at the Turin International Book Fair.
Turi Rapisarda has also organized exhibitions of young artists, photography courses, meetings and cultural debates, challenging, as an inexhaustible rebel, bourgeois clichés, easy and consumerist choices, abhorring the infamous art “market”, even putting it up for sale in non-institutional places his works, portraits of great personalities from the world of culture, framed in unsuspecting times and places starting from the mid-1970s.
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