Vincenzo Raimondo - Tigre

Canvas: 50x70 with resin finish

This painting depicts a tiger caught in a moment of direct advance toward the observer, with an intense and piercing gaze that creates immediate emotional involvement. The composition is built on a strong centrality of the subject, which emerges decisively from a dynamic and fragmented background.

The use of color is one of the most distinctive elements of the work: the warm tones of orange and yellow shape the tiger's figure, while the contrast with blues, greens, and purples in the background generates an energetic and contemporary visual vibration. The brushstrokes are instinctive, textural, deliberately irregular, contributing to conveying movement and vitality.

Also interesting is the treatment of the background, almost mosaic or fragmented, which breaks the static nature and amplifies the animal's presence, making it the absolute protagonist. The resin finish adds depth and gloss, further enhancing the chromatic contrasts.

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A self-taught artist, they develop an evolving painting practice, detached from a single style and guided by experience and expressive urgency.

Their practice arises from the observation of the everyday and a constant investigation into emotional dynamics, translating into an essential, direct, and deliberately imperfect visual language.

Through experimenting with different techniques and codes, each work becomes an autonomous territory, where form and content define each other reciprocally. Their work explores the complexity of the human being and the relationship with nature, rejecting the idea of art as a mere decorative element, but affirming it instead as an authentic and necessary presence.

In 2015 and 2016 they were finalists in the Sunday Painters competition, promoted by La Stampa, among more than 3,000 works selected. The works were evaluated by a qualified jury, with the participation of critic Francesco Bonami, and exhibited in a show linked to Artissima – International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin.

In 2016 they received the First Prize of the Critics.