The solo exhibition of artist Alfredo Raimondi recently opened at the Want Unconventiona Lab gallery in Bologna, Italy. Raimondi is known for his dark works when he expresses himself on skin and for his portraits when he chooses oil painting as his artistic medium.
In his works, Mojo reflects his inner world, his interest for mythology, and for the places and images he holds dear, where classical and Caravaggesque models coexist with mysterious demons and dark fairies.
Worlds that are distant from each other but which together give life to a combination where the taste of Romanticism, decadent and refined at the same time, the obscure, spectral, horrific and esoteric subjects can be found.
His figures, the protagonists of his paintings, are characterised by a desaturated and intentionally muted colour palette. They move within a dark, gloomy, decaying, and unsettling atmosphere.
At times, they appear as dreamlike images where the viewer, like in a dream, must interpret the figures—perfectly realistic—that emerge from the darkness Mojo leaves them in, anonymous, lived-in, and consumed, as if trapped in their own historical past.
Via Saffi 16/2E, Bologna, Italy
Until November 30, 2024
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