The fight Within

The fight Within brings together psychological, figurative works from 2019–2025. Influenced by Egon Schiele’s drawings and paintings, Virtosu approaches composition intuitively, often working with his non-dominant hand.

Figures and movements emerge through the gesture of painting. Tension is carried by posture rather than a resolved narrative, in troubled portraits, intimate figures, knights and mystical creatures.

References to Saint George and the Dragon and to Jung’s concept of the shadow place these encounters between figures within a wider exploration of inner conflict.