Vincenzo Raimondo - Girl Power

Title: Girl Power

Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 60 × 90 cm


Girl Power reworks a symbolic gesture born within the feminist demonstrations of the 1970s, which became the emblem of the liberation of the female body from taboos and reductionist readings. A gesture that publicly emerged in 1971 in Paris and later spread across Europe and North America as a sign of emancipation, awareness and cultural rupture.

In the painting the gesture is synthesized through a direct and contemporary graphic language, preserving its original force without turning it into sterile provocation. The hands construct a recognizable form, charged with historical memory and political meaning, while the neutral background isolates the symbol, making it central, almost iconic.

The inscriptions “Girl Power” and “Man Weakness” introduce an ironic and deliberately unbalanced reading. What historically has been perceived as female fragility or weakness is reversed here: the strength claimed by women becomes, for men, a loss of control and destabilization. Not an attack, but a play of semantic inversion that challenges traditional power roles.

Girl Power uses irony as a critical tool, transforming a gesture with a precise history into a current, readable image rich in symbolic tension. A work that invites reflection on how strength often depends only on perspective.

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Self-taught artist, my work does not follow a fixed style, but evolves with time and experience.
My painting arises from observing everyday life and listening to emotions.
I address diverse themes and experiment with new languages, letting each work find its own form.
Mine is an instinctive, essential and imperfect art, tied to the complexity of the human being and of nature.
Art, for me, is not decoration but authentic and lived presence.

In 2015 and 2016 I was a finalist in the Sunday Painters competition promoted by La Stampa, among over 3,000 submitted works.
The selections were curated by a qualified jury, with the presence of critic Francesco Bonami.
The finalists were presented in a program linked to Artissima – International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin. In 2016 I received the Critics’ First Prize.