Silvio Alino

Silvio Alino (Romania, 1980) is a pop artist residing in Barcelona with a career spanning over a decade. Self-taught, he works with mixed techniques—painting, screen printing, mash-up, and street art—creating a distinctive visual language where formal precision and urban gesture coexist.

His work recovers the aesthetics of 1980s pop art to articulate a critical and ironic reading of contemporary society: the media, consumerism, the fascination with fame, and the proliferation of the "fake" are his recurring themes. He uses images with a strong iconic charge, superimpositions, and chromatic contrasts that reinforce the tension between appearance and message, exploring both the aesthetic and semantic dimensions of the popular imagination.

His process incorporates recognizable influences: the repetition and reflection on mass culture of Andy Warhol; the expressive line and public commitment of Keith Haring; the neo-expressionist energy and use of text of Jean-Michel Basquiat; as well as the graphic and narrative aesthetics of cartoons, comics, and manga. These references nourish his treatment of the image—from iconography to composition—and allow him to establish a contemporary dialogue between gallery art, urban culture, and popular visual culture.

The Pop Icon series consolidated its international projection: in 2015, four works from this series were selected by Madonna for the background video of the song "Rebel Heart" during the Rebel Heart World Tour. His pieces have been exhibited in numerous individual and collective exhibitions, as well as in national and international art fairs, and are part of private collections around the world. Silvio Alino's practice is distinguished by its ability to engage with contemporary visual culture from a rigorous formal proposal and immediate impact.