Vincenzo Raimondo - Black glow #13
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Two-panel original diptych, each 70 x 34 cm, acrylic on canvas in multicolour, titled Black glow #13 by Vincenzo Raimondo, hand-signed, dated 2026, in good condition, depicting a portrait in a Pop Art style.
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Two canvases 70×34
Two distant worlds brush past each other on a black background, as if the night had decided to stage a meeting that was not meant to happen. Maya and Magà, belonging to different stories, here face each other.
It isn’t a scene of declared love, because that would be too easy, and humanity already overuses easy things enough. It’s rather a silent complicity, a look that crosses borders, eras, and affiliations. The Black & Glow series captures exactly this: iconic characters, memory, light and nostalgia, turning them into a small new story.
A tender and sly diptych, where love is not explained: it is inferred. And for once, incredibly, that’s enough.
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Black Glow
With this new series, the artist opens a darker path, more graphic, more theatrical. The black background is not merely a backdrop: it becomes material, atmosphere, a deep space from which the figures emerge like illuminated apparitions.
The work plays on the contrast between shadow and glow: white lines, sudden reflections, touches of warm and cold color that break the darkness and give movement to the composition. The subjects may change, but the heart of the series remains in the technique: an instinctive, luminous, almost nocturnal painting, where the black does not extinguish the image, but lightens it.
It is a series that recalls the language of pop art, but brings it to a more adult, rougher, less decorative dimension. The figures become visual pretexts to tell about light, character, irony and presence.
A game of contrasts, in short: darkness as a stage, white as
***Disclaimer***
Each work arises from the meeting 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 careful and aware production process.
The canvases used are selected with special attention to quality and, where possible, environmental sustainability, favoring recycled or low-impact materials. In some cases, the supports may be handcrafted or finished, even through the reuse of materials.
Slight imperfections of the support should not be considered defects, but testimonies of the manual process and the artisanal nature of the product. These characteristics do not in any way compromise the artistic value or the integrity of the work, but rather strengthen its uniqueness.
Each painting is therefore to be understood as a unique piece, the result of a process that blends creativity, manual work 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 TranslateTwo canvases 70×34
Two distant worlds brush past each other on a black background, as if the night had decided to stage a meeting that was not meant to happen. Maya and Magà, belonging to different stories, here face each other.
It isn’t a scene of declared love, because that would be too easy, and humanity already overuses easy things enough. It’s rather a silent complicity, a look that crosses borders, eras, and affiliations. The Black & Glow series captures exactly this: iconic characters, memory, light and nostalgia, turning them into a small new story.
A tender and sly diptych, where love is not explained: it is inferred. And for once, incredibly, that’s enough.
***
Black Glow
With this new series, the artist opens a darker path, more graphic, more theatrical. The black background is not merely a backdrop: it becomes material, atmosphere, a deep space from which the figures emerge like illuminated apparitions.
The work plays on the contrast between shadow and glow: white lines, sudden reflections, touches of warm and cold color that break the darkness and give movement to the composition. The subjects may change, but the heart of the series remains in the technique: an instinctive, luminous, almost nocturnal painting, where the black does not extinguish the image, but lightens it.
It is a series that recalls the language of pop art, but brings it to a more adult, rougher, less decorative dimension. The figures become visual pretexts to tell about light, character, irony and presence.
A game of contrasts, in short: darkness as a stage, white as
***Disclaimer***
Each work arises from the meeting 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 careful and aware production process.
The canvases used are selected with special attention to quality and, where possible, environmental sustainability, favoring recycled or low-impact materials. In some cases, the supports may be handcrafted or finished, even through the reuse of materials.
Slight imperfections of the support should not be considered defects, but testimonies of the manual process and the artisanal nature of the product. These characteristics do not in any way compromise the artistic value or the integrity of the work, but rather strengthen its uniqueness.
Each painting is therefore to be understood as a unique piece, the result of a process that blends creativity, manual work 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
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Direct from the artist
Sold with frame
No
Title of artwork
Black glow #13
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Good condition
Colour
Multicolour
Height
70 cm
Width
34 cm
Weight
1 g
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Pop Art
Period
2020+
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