Alessio Radice is an Italian contemporary painter and creates colourful and breath-taking portraits that are executed in oil. His paintings capture the essence of its subjects in a turbulence of colours with minimal strokes, which are strategically placed to bring the spectator where he wants them to be. A myriad of expressions come out of his work: oblivion, envy, determination, questioning, revolt, brutality, pain and lust. As said by Brian Sherwin, an art critic “his art exposes psychological wounds”. This statement can be applied to most of his portraits. In Alessio’s work, one can see a range of raw emotions come into visual play — some of these portraits convey a sense of defeated innocence, while others appear to be strikingly sinister.
