Biography
Notiziario
Italo Turri was born to Anagni February 13 th 1926 in the street of the Trivio, one of the characteristic alleys of the historical center. E'il Vincent's Turri third-born, cobbler and Caterina Baldassarri.
They have had four children, three males and a female. It frequents with profit the five elementary classes, as he is read in his certificate of study, at the end of the second course of the professional (section ebanisteria) school to Anagni, ended in 1940 enough (praiseworthy instead, the judgment of the behavior, the in comparison to the hygiene, cleaning and care of the person) evaluation he is given. From September 15 th 1943 to June 1944 it belongs to the partisan formation "Anagni" with the hierarchical qualification "partisan of private soldier", motive for which is enlisted in the army, from where he is definitely dismissed the 22 November of 1948. Two years later he marries and it goes to live to Saint Chiara where they will be born in 1951 and in 1953 the two daughters. In 1955 the marriage ends and Italo returns in his fatherly house of street of the Trivio, together with the smaller brother. After a brief period of occupation near the Commune of Anagni as garbage collector, he devotes completely to the painting, a cultivated passion for a long time. It exclusively draws on material from discard, on which it realizes his "cardboards" that it almost always gives. Its production is very vast, as its creative vein, even if for an official recognition it will need to attend 1993, when the commune of Anagni and the association For Place it organizes a show of its jobs in the town gallery, from on May 30 to June 10 they are exposed 36 works of Italo Turri to the public and in that occasion the critic of art Lawrence Ostuni coins for him the definition " The lunatic of the innocence."
For the image of Italo Turri it opens a new it was: its works receive attentions and appreciations from more parts (an applause also arrives from Vittorio Sgarbi), its life "on the road" he is revalued. It dies to Anagni April 9 th 1995 to the 69 year-old age
