1997

He was born in Milan in 1950. He attended the Academy of Brera and the industrial design School "G. Columbus". He asserts himself in the Art Design field, collaborating with companies, editors and agencies. From 1979 to 1984, contemporaneously with his pictorial activity, he cooperates with "The Italian Newspaper of Europe", reviewing cinematographic subjects and painting and graphic exhibitions. In 1981 he wrote an important documentary about the Fair in Milan, following also its direction. From 1982 to 1993 he was Art Director at the Advertising Communication Agency and at the Marketing Team 77 of Milan. He has realized frescos, decorations and restorations for the Holy Places and Laycal Institutions, such as "The conversion of Saint Paul" and "The Symbol of the Holy Spirit" for the Chapel Pianzola-Olivelli at Cilavegna. From 1975 to today, he has worked in more than 40 art reviews. Different articles and essays about his artistic life have been published in local and national newspapers. He is professor of design and pictorial techniques. His works belong to public and private collections in Italy, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Japan, Egypt, USA. He lives and works in Milan and at Cilavegna (PV). Francesco Baccin, Spartaco Balestrieri, Antonio Canfora, Elena Cappellaro, Vincenzo Castelli, Arnaldo Cozzi, Antonino de Bono, Giorgio d'Ilario, Enrica Gamalero, Elio Marcianò, Giuseppe Martucci, Nini Masaracchio, Pierluigi Menapace, Franco Poma, Claudio Rizzi, Franco Salvotti, Franco Sapi, Luigi Valerio and Antonio Zinni have written about him

The painter explores the world of dreams, in which he finds his total expressive freedom; for this reason the apparent casualness of the objects reflects the relativity of every human knowledge. In Turconi's paintings, we find the lesson about the surrealism explained with contemporary sensibility: the objects are placed in an indefinite space, stiff in an unreal and rarefied silence, on scenographical horizons and scenes of a still world. The representation is classic, in the search of details, sign of a solid and absorbed technique, but in his paintings we also find the same detachment of the objects of Magritte and the metaphysical impression of De Chirico; so that a dreaming world, made of anxiety of freedom and search of the eternity peculiar to the artists of our century and that joins the artists of the present with those of the past, comes out.

Franco Poma

A honest and sincere care: filter and synthesis for some particularly acute tendencies. The classic representation, the emotional surrealism, the silent and slow fascination of the metaphysic. Furthermore, a technical choice is intentionally described paying attention to all details, typical of the "Iper-realistic" trend. An elaborate and reflected construction in the convinced attention of who is conscious of the hard task.

Claudio Rizzi

The metaphysical and surrealist magic of G.E. Turconi flows from the incongrous relation of images and from the particular, cold, still and silent climate, evoked with the use of the colours at low wave-lenght. The objects, the natural things and the human figures are placed in an indefinite place and among architectonic elements that create the charm of the absurdity.

Luigi Valerio