Paola Turra
Abstraction
Born in Venice where she lives and works. From the beginning she has a great passion for art. In the nineties she took courses in pictorial and graphic techniques taught by Prof. Francesco De Notaristefani, later she attended “La Scuola Libera del Nudo all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia” and she began her exhibition activity, She also attended the studio of the Venetian painter Dorino Cioffi and she strengthened her training with the lessons of Maestro Miro Romagna. She has held solo exhibitions and received various awards. She has participated in many national exhibitions. Her works are present in private collections both
in Italy and abroad, many are the publications in catalogs of the sector.
Statement
I mainly paint on canvases of various sizes, my favorite technique being acrylic paints, but also oil, watercolor, graphite, smoked candle, sandpaper, which I often use simultaneously. I make art because it gives me the opportunity to express visions and emotions that I feel inside me and want to emerge. Above all, I want to communicate lightness and essentiality; in fact, I admire artists who manage to convey emotions with little color, few strokes and little material, such as Virgilio Guidi and Miro Romagna who was my teacher. I chose acrylic colors because, basically, I use them with demineralized water that does not pollute and is odorless. I create my works when an internal impulse comes, but it comes from being struck by a particular light, a particular
glare, a particular framing of a Venetian palace, an unusual shade of color.
Solo Exhibitions
2024
2023
Galleria The Vianello Art Agency-Venezia
Galleria L’Occhio di Elisabetta Donaggio Venezia
Bistrot De Venise -Venezia
2022
Galleria virtuale Spaziokappa32 su Mostremilanoblog
2020
Galleria Le Cornici - Lido di Venezia
2012
Stradivarius Art - Calle dell’Aseo – Venezia
Awards and prizes
2023 Premio ADA - Venezia - II^ Classificata
2022 Targa della giuria al Premio Nazionale di Pittura “Renato Nardi”
2018 Selezionata al “Premio Mestre 2018”
2017 3° Classificata 36° Premio Nazionale di Pittura “Renato Nardi”
2015 34° Premio Nazionale di Pittura “Renato Nardi” Segnalazione
1999 XIV° Premio Nazionale d’Arti Figurative “Ruga Giuffa Venezia Segnalazione
1998 Premio “G.B. Tiepolo” - Udine Segnalazione
1997 XII° Premio Nazionale d’Arti Figurative “Ruga Giuffa” Venezia Segnalazione - Premio Cultura Venezia
1996 XI° Premio Nazionale d’Arti Figurative “Ruga Giuffa” Venezia Premio “Bepi Zanda” per il disegno
1° Progetto Poggi- Venezia Ideazione per un’etichetta di vino. Segnalazione
3° Classificata Premio Pittura Concorso del Miniquadro Marghera