Alex Di Silvestro
L’Escala, Girona
International Portrait & Visual Artist creator of a unique collection of iconic, hypo realistic vibrant portraits in originals, mixed media, LE prints & murals.
MessageThroughout his life, self taught, Italian born artist Alex Di Silvestro, has experimented and worked in a wide range of visual arts, including cut out paper collages, ink sketched and digital illustration, fashion, photography & interior design.
After being a creative director of a London based fashion brand for many years, he took a turn in his career during the 2020 pandemic, when he decided to evolve his individual minimalist fashion & portrait illustrations into a unique style of painted portraiture. The outcome has been a great success, and he's now working as a full-time professional, emerging artist, selling his art worldwide.
Alex Di Silvestro Art (signed Alex DS) is available directly from his studio-gallery based in the town of L'Escala, in the Salvador Dali’ native region of the Catalan Costa Brava and also shipped Worldwide.
All his artworks are sold with Registered Certificates of Authenticity and they are entirely handmade of high quality by the artist himself, with locally sourced supplies from sustainable companies.
Alex Di Silvestro also offers Luxury customisable and sustainable Art to fit in with specific colour or design schemes, meeting on demand visual requirements for private customers, interior designers or corporate organisations alike. Clients can choose among a wide range of original designs and luxury bespoke products such as:
• ORIGINAL & MIXED MEDIA PAINTINGS
• LUXURY GICLÉE PRINTS ON CANVAS
• BESPOKE PORTRAITS
• LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
• INDOORS / OUTDOORS MURALS
• COMMERCIAL ART
Alex Di Silvestro's studio & gallery, ESTUDI9, is based in Carrer de la Casa Gran, 17130 - L'Escala, Girona, ES.
Statement
As a self trained visual & portrait artist, I endeavour to create unique original artworks which purely reflects my own natural inspiration and individuality, untouched by academic rules or standards.
In a time of aggressively promoted tasteless and ugly, and despite social attraction for awkward and unnatural, I firmly pursue my celebration of beauty, harmony & positive. One of the appeals of my iconic portraits lies in their timeless capacity to confront our current reality, finding tasteful, heart warming emotional aesthetics.
Away from realism or weird, I enjoy painting bold minimalist portraiture & nature, taking off a certain degree of reality to create iconic, abstract interpretations aimed to capture the essence of a person or animal soul in a single frame. My approach to the canvas is the result of an in-depth research on the subject deepest emotions and inner beauty, rather than my own emotional expression.
I aim to get my viewers to experience the emotions and the stories behind the surface of my subjects, in order to discover a deeper meaning and to create an emotional connection. I often include an inspiration page with my works, to illustrate the story behind while adding an extra bonus experience to the artwork.
My main inspiration comes from design, music & fashion icons, graffiti, films and photography of my favourite decades: the Swinging Sixties, the Cool Seventies, the Electric Eighties and the Hip Hop Nineties. A new source of inspiration and call for my most recent works comes from wildlife and nature, in different forms.
I design each piece on canvas, first on pencil, then with paint using very light and completely untextured brush strokes, in different layers and mainly flat blocks. I occasionally distress the top layers to create shades or extra texture.
Colour has a key role in my work, my deep bold vibrant combinations, are key to my hand signature. I predominantly use high grade acrylic and matt gouache paint occasionally mixed with spray cans in mainly synthetic colour palette which includes neons, metallics & iridescents.
All my original paintings are produced on 100% natural canvases mounted on locally sourced natural wood reinforced 3D stretcher bars with all sides painted, or premium fine art papers.
My work is commercial, pleasant to the eye, peaceful & communicative, its boldness makes a very strong visual impact and can completely transform or restyle both private and corporate spaces alike.
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