Slasky - Josephine

Unique Opera

A female portrait of eighteenth-century origin emerges from a dark, austere, almost theatrical background. The face is composed, the gaze steady, the fair skin framed by a lace cap and powdered hair. The dress, elegant and sober, tells of a time of discipline and restraint.

But the surface has been violated.

The canvas appears torn by deep cuts that cross the face and bust like still-open scars. Irregular tears lift swathes of material, revealing the underlying support. Branched cracks run through the image like fractures in an ancient memory. Runs and scratches interrupt the portrait’s composure.

On the lower part, rapid gestures of white and red paint intrude with contemporary violence: instinctive marks, almost primitive writing, traverse the painted body, symbolically erasing the authority of the original image. The red drips like a fresh wound; the white gnaws and overwrites.

The contrast is sharp: on one side the silent nobility of the classical portrait, on the other the brutal act of subtraction and overwriting. It is not merely a vandalized artwork: it is a forced dialogue between past and present, between order and rupture, between constructed identity and destroyed identity.

The canvas no longer represents only a woman. It represents the fall of the image, the fragility of aesthetic authority, the transformation of patrimony into a wounded relic. It is a painted body bearing the traces of time and human intervention, where beauty is not erased, but traversed.

Slasky is an Italian digital artist; his works have been exhibited worldwide, including at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and published in fashion, tattoo and art magazines. He is known for his 360° digital technique, which he uses to create immersive and surreal images. His works explore themes such as nature, identity and perception; he is an innovative and visionary artist who is helping define the future of digital art.

“Art is not about representing new things, but representing them with novelty.”

Upcoming exhibition

FACE 2 FACE

March 5th
Laundry Studios
2 Warburton Rd,
London E8 3RT
UK

Recent Exhibitions

Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition
Venue Address
3 Chome-20-18 Jingumae, Shibuya,
Tokyo 150-0001,
Japan

Parallax Art Fair
Kensington Town Hall
Hornton Street
London
W8 7NX

2024
Solo Exhibition
CONTEMPORARY VENICE
Palazzo Pisani-Revedin
S. Marco, 4013A , 30124 Venezia, Italia

ARTLAB
Benjamin Eck Gallery
Munich, Germany

2021
Mia Fair
The Informazioni Photography Art Fair Italy
Milan, Italy

Lausanne Art Fair
Beaulieu Lausanne
Booth 59
Switzerland

Lille ArtUp 2021
Lille, France

StreetArt//UrbanArt
Legnano, Italy

2020
Woodward Gallery
WashYourHands Exhibition
New York City, NY

RedSheep Gallery
Work in Paper
Stockholm, Sweden

2019

Wopart Art Fair 2019 / Centro Esposizioni - Lugano, Switzerland

Lang Leve Rembrandt
Rijks Museum Amsterdam

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