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Vesuviano

Rosario Annunziata

2025 • Italy • Acrylic, Pastel on Paper

17 x 12 in

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Rosario Annunziata

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Exhibition Vesuvius Art - Rosario Annunziata

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Medium : Acrylic, Pastel on Paper
Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
Dimensions : 16.5x11.8in

About this artwork

Vesuviano is a work born from the urgent need to assert a visual and cultural identity rooted in the volcanic soil of Southern Italy. The central face, deconstructed and reconstructed through lines, symbols, and bright colors, recalls the aesthetics of neo-expressionism and street art, particularly the visual language of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The layered composition integrates evocative words and symbols such as "Peace," "Fear is human," and "Magic… is believing in ourselves," transforming the portrait into a manifesto of resistance and hope. The term "Vesuvian," repeated several times, becomes an emblem of belonging, memory, and transformation.

The work expresses a denunciation of standardization and a call to awaken individual and collective consciousness.

Themes: Identity, cultural resistance, urban expression, hope, Southern Italy
Style: Abstract Expressionist, Street Art, Symbolic Art.

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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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Vesuviano

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