Vincenzo Raimondo - Fly: Summer love
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Vincenzo Raimondo, Fly: Summer love, original acrylic painting on canvas in multicolour, 60 × 30 cm, signed by hand, 2026, Italy, landscape in expressionism, in good condition.
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In this triptych of the Fly series, the artist transforms three timeless icons of Italian culture into symbols of lightness, freedom, and memory. The Vespa, the Fiat 500 and the Graziella are no longer merely means of transport, but become small fragments of life suspended in time, dragged by colorful balloons toward a dimension almost poetic.
Minimalist only in appearance, the triptych manages to evoke Italian summers, country roads, first loves and that sweet melancholy of simple things that today seem to disappear under tons of screens and notifications. The essential backgrounds leave room for memory, while the details reduced to the essential make each work immediate and universal.
Three popular symbols, three small emotional flights. Because sometimes all it takes is a bicycle, a Vespa, or an old 500 to remind us who we were. Nostalgia, a strange animal: it sells you the past and it can even make you desire it again.
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The Fly series was born from the idea of transforming small everyday objects into symbols of memory, lightness and freedom. Through minimalist compositions and wide, material backgrounds, the attention focuses on essential details: balloons, suspended figures, and nostalgic references that evoke childhood, dreams, and shared memories.
Each work plays on the contrast between emptiness and color, between the simplicity of the composition and the emotional strength of the subject. The small protagonist elements seem to float in space, creating a sense of quiet and suspension that makes the painting immediately recognizable and contemporary.
The tactile and deliberately imperfect surfaces dialogue with iconic symbols of pop culture and collective memory, giving life to poetic, ironic, and deeply evocative works. “Fly” is a series that speaks of lightness, but also of the emotional weight of memories we continue to carry with us.
***Disclaimer***
Each work arises from the encounter between artistic expression and artisanal craft.
The painting represents the main creative element, while the support (canvas and materials) is an integral part of a production process that is careful and conscious.
The canvases used are selected with particular attention to quality and, where possible, environmental sustainability, privileging recycled materials or low impact. In some cases, supports may be made or finished by hand, even through the reuse of materials.
Any slight imperfections of the support should not be considered defects, but testimonies of the manual process and the artisanal nature of the product. Such characteristics in no way compromise the artistic value and integrity of the work, but rather reinforce its uniqueness.
Each painting is therefore to be understood as a unique piece, the result of a process that unites creativity, craftsmanship and responsible attention to materials.
Seller's Story
“Art is born where imperfection stops being a defect and becomes language.”
Vincenzo Raimondo is an Italian contemporary artist born and active in Palermo. Self-taught, he develops a personal pictorial research that traverses material abstraction, minimalism and contemporary figuration, without adhering to rigid stylistic schemes.
His painting takes shape from the observation of daily life: common objects, memories, cultural symbols and emotional fragments are transformed into essential images, capable of creating a direct dialogue with the observer. The mark, the matter and the void become an integral part of the visual narration.
Over the years he has participated in artistic events, group exhibitions and improvised happenings in the Palermo area, maturing a recognizable language that combines visual immediacy and emotional research. His presence in local artistic initiatives and cultural manifestations has contributed to building an independent and coherent path.
Among the most relevant experiences are participation in group shows and artistic events in Palermo and exhibition activities related to the contemporary Sicilian creative landscape.
In 2015 and 2016 he was a finalist in the national competition Sunday Painters promoted by La Stampa as part of Artissima, distinguishing himself among thousands of participating artists. In 2016 he received the Critics’ Award, a recognition that marked a significant step in defining his artistic identity.
Raimondo’s production develops through several thematic series. Among these, the Fly series is one of the most recognizable: minimalist and poetic compositions in which small suspended elements evoke lightness, memory and the desire to escape. Alongside this pursuit coexist textural works, contemporary reinterpretations of Sicilian culture and pieces inspired by pop and cinematic imagery.
Each work is born from an instinctive and experimental process, where imperfection is welcomed as an authentic part of the creative journey. Raw surfaces, stratifications, deliberately irregular marks and materiality are not hidden but enhanced as living traces of the work itself.
For Raimondo, art is not mere decoration, but emotional presence: a direct and sincere way of transforming experiences, memory and observation into contemporary images.
Translated by Google TranslateIn this triptych of the Fly series, the artist transforms three timeless icons of Italian culture into symbols of lightness, freedom, and memory. The Vespa, the Fiat 500 and the Graziella are no longer merely means of transport, but become small fragments of life suspended in time, dragged by colorful balloons toward a dimension almost poetic.
Minimalist only in appearance, the triptych manages to evoke Italian summers, country roads, first loves and that sweet melancholy of simple things that today seem to disappear under tons of screens and notifications. The essential backgrounds leave room for memory, while the details reduced to the essential make each work immediate and universal.
Three popular symbols, three small emotional flights. Because sometimes all it takes is a bicycle, a Vespa, or an old 500 to remind us who we were. Nostalgia, a strange animal: it sells you the past and it can even make you desire it again.
***
The Fly series was born from the idea of transforming small everyday objects into symbols of memory, lightness and freedom. Through minimalist compositions and wide, material backgrounds, the attention focuses on essential details: balloons, suspended figures, and nostalgic references that evoke childhood, dreams, and shared memories.
Each work plays on the contrast between emptiness and color, between the simplicity of the composition and the emotional strength of the subject. The small protagonist elements seem to float in space, creating a sense of quiet and suspension that makes the painting immediately recognizable and contemporary.
The tactile and deliberately imperfect surfaces dialogue with iconic symbols of pop culture and collective memory, giving life to poetic, ironic, and deeply evocative works. “Fly” is a series that speaks of lightness, but also of the emotional weight of memories we continue to carry with us.
***Disclaimer***
Each work arises from the encounter between artistic expression and artisanal craft.
The painting represents the main creative element, while the support (canvas and materials) is an integral part of a production process that is careful and conscious.
The canvases used are selected with particular attention to quality and, where possible, environmental sustainability, privileging recycled materials or low impact. In some cases, supports may be made or finished by hand, even through the reuse of materials.
Any slight imperfections of the support should not be considered defects, but testimonies of the manual process and the artisanal nature of the product. Such characteristics in no way compromise the artistic value and integrity of the work, but rather reinforce its uniqueness.
Each painting is therefore to be understood as a unique piece, the result of a process that unites creativity, craftsmanship and responsible attention to materials.
Seller's Story
“Art is born where imperfection stops being a defect and becomes language.”
Vincenzo Raimondo is an Italian contemporary artist born and active in Palermo. Self-taught, he develops a personal pictorial research that traverses material abstraction, minimalism and contemporary figuration, without adhering to rigid stylistic schemes.
His painting takes shape from the observation of daily life: common objects, memories, cultural symbols and emotional fragments are transformed into essential images, capable of creating a direct dialogue with the observer. The mark, the matter and the void become an integral part of the visual narration.
Over the years he has participated in artistic events, group exhibitions and improvised happenings in the Palermo area, maturing a recognizable language that combines visual immediacy and emotional research. His presence in local artistic initiatives and cultural manifestations has contributed to building an independent and coherent path.
Among the most relevant experiences are participation in group shows and artistic events in Palermo and exhibition activities related to the contemporary Sicilian creative landscape.
In 2015 and 2016 he was a finalist in the national competition Sunday Painters promoted by La Stampa as part of Artissima, distinguishing himself among thousands of participating artists. In 2016 he received the Critics’ Award, a recognition that marked a significant step in defining his artistic identity.
Raimondo’s production develops through several thematic series. Among these, the Fly series is one of the most recognizable: minimalist and poetic compositions in which small suspended elements evoke lightness, memory and the desire to escape. Alongside this pursuit coexist textural works, contemporary reinterpretations of Sicilian culture and pieces inspired by pop and cinematic imagery.
Each work is born from an instinctive and experimental process, where imperfection is welcomed as an authentic part of the creative journey. Raw surfaces, stratifications, deliberately irregular marks and materiality are not hidden but enhanced as living traces of the work itself.
For Raimondo, art is not mere decoration, but emotional presence: a direct and sincere way of transforming experiences, memory and observation into contemporary images.
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Artist
Vincenzo Raimondo
Edition
Original
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Sold with frame
No
Title of artwork
Fly: Summer love
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Good condition
Colour
Multicolour
Height
60 cm
Width
30 cm
Weight
1 g
Depiction/theme
Landscape
Style
Expressionism
Period
2020+
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