BETWEEN GRAPHIC REALISM
&
POP ART
In this series I explore the space between representation and visual culture, connecting elements of photographic realism with the energy and iconography of pop imagery. My intention is not to recreate visual clichés, but to reframefamiliar scenes — social gestures, cultural symbols, everyday motifs — through a hybrid language that combines photography, digital painting, and traditional media.
By juxtaposing graphic intensity with painterly presence, these works invite viewers to reconsider the familiar, to see how images from our daily visual environment interact with memory, perception, and meaning. What interests me most is how these transformed images can reveal new ways of looking — where what we recognize becomes a starting point for what we can imagine.
"Me and you beyond the hills "
Medium : Digital on Aluminium
Size : 107x70 cm
Limited Edition 1/7
"Something also blooms at night "
Medium : Digital Painting on Alu-Dibond
Size : 80x130 cm
"Selfie #2 "
Medium : Digital on Aluminium
Size : 107x70 cm
Limited Edition 1/7
"Selfie "
Medium : Painting - Acrilic on canvas
Size : 120x100 cm
"La ragazza delle mele "
"The instagram generation"
Medium : Digital on Aluminium
Size : 100x100 cm
Medium : Painting - Acrilic on canvas
Size : 100x60 cm
Limited Edition 1/7
"We need to talk "
"Please don't coke in the bathroom"
Medium : Digital paint on Acrylglas
Size : 130x130 cm
Medium : Painting - Acrilic on canvas
Size : 80x60 cm
"Yummy Junky "
"The shy girl"
Medium : Print on Acrylic glass
Size : 100x95 cm
Medium : Painting - Acrilic on canvas
Size : 60x60 cm
Limited Edition 1/7
"You behind the hill"
"I am still waiting"
Medium : Acrylic on canvas
Size : 120x90 cm
Medium : Acrylic on canvas
Size : 100x80 cm
"On the beach "
"God save the King"
Medium : Digital on aluminium
Size : 100x67 cm
Medium : Digital on Alunminium
Size : 100x67 cm
Limited Edition 1/7
Limited Edition 1/25
"The relax"
Medium : Painting - Acrilic on canvas
Size : 110x110 cm
"Happy days "
Medium : Painting - Acrilic on canvas
Size : 110x110
"La donna che appende"
Medium : Painting - Acrilic on canvas
Size : 90x90 cm
"The walk "
Medium : Digital on Alunminium
Size : 80x100
Limited Edition 1/7
"Summer in the Vatican"
Medium : Digital on Alunminium
Size : 100x100 cm
"Spring time "
Medium : Wall sculpture - Printed Aluminium
Size : 80x100
Limited Edition 1/7
About the work
Between Graphic Realism & Pop Art presents a lively and conceptually layered exploration of how image, culture, and medium intertwine in contemporary visual language. The project deliberately situates itself at the intersection of photography, digital painting, and traditional painting, experimenting with how these modes can coexist within a single visual framework. Rather than privileging one medium over another, Torracchi's work embraces hybridity, producing compositions that blur the distinctions between realism and graphic invention.
The title of the series refers to artistic traditions that engage with popular imagery and motifs from mass culture, recalling aspects of Pop Art—a movement that historically drew on advertising, media, and everyday visual culture—although Torracchi's approach remains personal, fluid, and often elusive. Works such as “Selfie #2,” “The Instagram Generation,” and “Yummy Junky” reveal an interest in iconic contemporary subjects, reconfigured through painterly and digital processes that invite viewers to reconsider the familiar in unusual terms.