Slasky - Hello

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Hello, a Giclée on 380 g cotton museum canvas, unframed, edition limited, produced in Italy in 2019, Baroque style with a pop culture theme, hand-signed and in excellent condition; dimensions 50 x 35 cm.

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Giclée on museum-grade cotton canvas 380 g/m² with certificate of authenticity
UNFRAMED

An elegant hand, suspended in a restrained gesture, emerges from a painterly context that recalls Flemish and Baroque traditions: soft light, precious fabrics, meticulous details. But something cracks the historical illusion.

On the skin, a contemporary tattoo — a living, almost pulsating rose — breaks the pure ideal of the classical subject. It is not decoration: it is declaration. It is an imprint of identity, irreversable, that crosses time.

At the wrist, among golds and embroideries, an unexpected element appears: a small Hello Kitty charm. Childish, pop, universal. Apparently harmless, in reality destabilizing. Placed in a context of aristocratic luxury, it becomes a visual and cultural short circuit: innocence and consumption, memory and globalization, sacred and daily life.

The title Hello is not a greeting, but an opening. A direct entry between incompatible eras.
It is the entrance of the present into the historical image.
It is contamination as language.

The work does not ask to be interpreted with nostalgia, but to be traversed with awareness: what we see is no longer past or present, but a hybrid surface where symbols live together without hierarchy.

And it is precisely there, in that tension, that its value is built.

« Art is not about representing new things, but representing them with novelty »

Slasky is a renowned Italian artist whose works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally.

The artist has the ability to fuse classical artworks with techniques of contemporary digital art. With his neo-urban classic style, he blends tradition and modernity, bringing the protagonists of original artworks into contemporary social and artistic environments.

FACE 2 FACE

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

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

ST-ART, STRASBOURG 2021
25 - 28 NOV. 2021
PARC EXPO STRASBOURG

SM'ART AIX-EN-PROVENCE, 2021
14 - 18 OCTOBER 2021
BOOTH 123A

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

Giclée on museum-grade cotton canvas 380 g/m² with certificate of authenticity
UNFRAMED

An elegant hand, suspended in a restrained gesture, emerges from a painterly context that recalls Flemish and Baroque traditions: soft light, precious fabrics, meticulous details. But something cracks the historical illusion.

On the skin, a contemporary tattoo — a living, almost pulsating rose — breaks the pure ideal of the classical subject. It is not decoration: it is declaration. It is an imprint of identity, irreversable, that crosses time.

At the wrist, among golds and embroideries, an unexpected element appears: a small Hello Kitty charm. Childish, pop, universal. Apparently harmless, in reality destabilizing. Placed in a context of aristocratic luxury, it becomes a visual and cultural short circuit: innocence and consumption, memory and globalization, sacred and daily life.

The title Hello is not a greeting, but an opening. A direct entry between incompatible eras.
It is the entrance of the present into the historical image.
It is contamination as language.

The work does not ask to be interpreted with nostalgia, but to be traversed with awareness: what we see is no longer past or present, but a hybrid surface where symbols live together without hierarchy.

And it is precisely there, in that tension, that its value is built.

« Art is not about representing new things, but representing them with novelty »

Slasky is a renowned Italian artist whose works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally.

The artist has the ability to fuse classical artworks with techniques of contemporary digital art. With his neo-urban classic style, he blends tradition and modernity, bringing the protagonists of original artworks into contemporary social and artistic environments.

FACE 2 FACE

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

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

ST-ART, STRASBOURG 2021
25 - 28 NOV. 2021
PARC EXPO STRASBOURG

SM'ART AIX-EN-PROVENCE, 2021
14 - 18 OCTOBER 2021
BOOTH 123A

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

Details

Artist
Slasky
Sold by
Agent
Edition
Limited edition
Title of artwork
Hello
Technique
Giclée
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2019
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
50 cm
Width
35 cm
Depiction/theme
Pop Culture
Style
Baroque
Period
2020+
Sold with frame
No
Sold by
ItalyVerified
110
Objects sold
100%
Private

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