Vincenzo Raimondo - All you need love

Title: Need Love
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 60 × 90 cm

Need Love is a work that strikes with its visual immediacy and direct, almost disarming language. The central subject, a stylized and monumental hand, is built through soft shapes and solid colors that interweave like emotional segments: red, yellow, light blue and blue become symbols of energy, vulnerability, momentum, and inner depth.

The composition is deliberately simple, yet far from banal. The neutral, slightly tactile background amplifies the power of the gesture, isolating it and making it universal. The inscription “All you need is love” does not accompany the image: it asserts it, nails it to the viewer, without complex metaphors or turns of phrases. It is a direct, almost pop message that dialogues with contemporary iconography and with urban visual communication.

The black outlines, sharp and decisive, evoke an illustrative and street aesthetic, while the flat, intense color rendering strengthens the graphic impact of the artwork. The hand, exaggerated and symbolic, becomes a human gesture in absolute terms: a request, an offer, a need, contact.

Need Love is a work that speaks to the present, to a society starved of authentic connections. It does not pretend to be cryptic, it does not play hide and seek with meaning. It says what it thinks and does so with style.

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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 daily life and listening to emotions.
I tackle different 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, lived presence.

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