Alex Di Silvestro
Contemporary portrait artist transforming people and animals into iconic, timeless visual statements.
Message
Alex Di Silvestro is an Italian-born international visual portrait artist and creative entrepreneur. His professional career began in early-2000s London, where he worked in fashion illustration and visual arts before co-founding and running a luxury fashion brand and boutique with British couturier Candy Anthony.
In 2018, a visit to the Dalí Museum in the Spanish Costa Brava marked a decisive turning point in his career. Confronted by Salvador Dali's distinctive face expressions and genius multidisciplinary artistic vision, Di Silvestro shifted his focus from illustration to painting, entering an intense period of experimentation and creative exploration.
Working intuitively rather than academically, he developed a bold, contemporary minimalist language defined by clean lines, flat colour blocks, the absence of visible brushstrokes and strong chromatic contrasts. His subjects, human and animal, are distilled into iconic, timeless interpretations that balance graphic impact with emotional presence.
Rooted in Italian and British visual culture and craftsmanship, Di Silvestro’s work reflects precision, material quality, and close attention to detail. Each piece is individually produced by the artist, drawing on traditions of craft shaped by fashion, design, and applied arts.
His professional background in visual design, fashion and interiors, allows him to create unique artworks that operate at the intersection of art and design. His portraits function as visual signatures, integrating naturally into contemporary residential, corporate, and hospitality environments.
His Iconic Portraits established early recognition and laid the foundation for an expanding body of work collected internationally. Within only a few years, his artworks attracted returning collectors, international buyers, sponsorships, commercial partnerships and professional attention worldwide. His story has also been featured on UK Channel4 television, and his work has been exhibited internationally.
Alex Di Silvestro’s ICONIC ART is available as:
- Original acrylic & mixed-media works
- Limited editions, individually signed and hand-finished
- Private and corporate commissions, including partnerships
- Large-scale indoor & outdoor mural projects
Statement
I’m a self-taught visual & portrait artist - entrepreneur, creating original works rooted in pure inspiration from my own individual intuition, free from academic rules or standards.
In an era often dominated by noise, collective repetition and darkness, I remain committed to my path of clarity, harmony and positive resonance. My works are minimalist, pop, unseen interpretations of human and animal figures, distilled into emotionally deep icons where art meets design.
Faces have fascinated me since early childhood, alongside a lifelong interest in graphic language, pop and street art. My visual vocabulary draws from design, fashion, music and contemporary culture.
Salvador Dali' has been a profound personal and conceptual influence. His eclectic personal branding and multidimensional creative genius, reignited my artistic direction and continue to inspire me daily. Drawing his face was for me an initial experiment, which became an obsession and finally an art collectible.
I work across acrylic, mixed media, paper collage, screen printing and 3D installations. My process is minimalist yet meticulous. I layer flat blocks of very specific colour hues with invisible brushstrokes, often enhanced with spray paint. Bold colour combinations, geometric asymmetry, sharp contrasts & emotional depths define my unique visual language. Less is more. The detail sits in the viewer’s own imagination and eye. An icon is a timeless, reduced image containing an entire story in a single frame.
My artistic approach operates at the intersection of art and design. Drawing on my background in visual design and fashion illustration, I develop minimalist, iconic works that function not only as artworks, but as bold visual signatures integrated within designed interiors and professional environments.
Rather than pursuing awards and prizes, my practice has been shaped through continuous studio work and direct engagement with collectors & partners where repeat acquisitions and client trust are serving as my primary measure of success.
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LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This artist statement is biographical and editorial in nature. The artist is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí or any related institution.