Giancarlo Turchini He speaks af returning to the figurative style this year. It isn't a return to the style on part of the artist but a demand from the public who “see” and wish ta understand.We have assisted in this period,utopiaistic tentatives in the field of pictorial research, an artificial abandanment of the fantasy of visual-conceptual research,more from the changeable and illusory turn: Giancarlo Turchini, remains firm whit the traditions of the great master, in continuation whit, the beatiful, the sublime, the true, what one sees, what one pleases to see more of, he is able to transmit whith delicacy his will is clear and profound. The skill in his wood-cuts of children's faces, of figures and personages, of the marvelous sea with beatsa,in an all,the concetration of poetry and love is evident.

Mid Times Editor in chief                                                                                        april 16, 1980