Every promise is a Lie Rosario Annunziata Original painting for sale

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Every promise is a Lie

Rosario Annunziata

2026 • Italy • Acrylic, Pencil on Canvas

39 x 39 in

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Rosario Annunziata

Italy

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Medium : Acrylic, Pencil on Canvas
Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
Dimensions : 39.4x39.4in

About this artwork

In this work, the central figure is a deformed Pulcinella, emptied of his traditional symbolic function and transformed into an exhausted body, driven to react. There is no irony or consoling mask: he remains a tense, almost mad presence, responding instinctively to a world saturated with rules, signals, commands, and unfulfilled promises.
The pictorial space is permeated by a controlled chaos of graffiti, urban symbols, and safety notices that,… rather than protecting, contribute to confusion and alienation. Rules become visual noise, language is emptied of meaning, and promises are revealed as lies.
In contrast to this tension, a fragile and silent element emerges: a pencil-drawn eye. It's the only sign that doesn't shout, impose, or attack. It observes.
It represents the only form of authentic beauty within the painting: a free, untamed beauty that does not need rules, impositions or authority to exist.

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Rosario Annunziata

Italy

Credentials

Group shows participant
Established Artist
Prizewinner
Favorited by galleries
Featured in gallery curations
Works on commission

Rosario Annunziata is an Italian painter born at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, a land where history continues to burn beneath the surface and art becomes a necessity of expression. His work combines gestural energy and primitive signs, between abstraction and figuration, rooted in Neapolitan culture and the archaic symbols of the Mediterranean. Through textured, layered surfaces, charged with color, he constructs an intense yet silent social commentary, capturing the restlessness of contemporary man. Broken faces, crosses, volcanoes, and totemic animals emerge as recurring elements, evoking identity, memory, and resistance. Influenced by Basquiat, De Kooning, and the language of urban graffiti, he transforms gesture into language and painting into emotional tension. He lives and works in Campania, where he combines his artistic practice with teaching.

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Every promise is a Lie

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