Slasky - Giove redarguito da Venere
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Giove redarguito da Venere, a limited edition 2024 giclée on PhotoRag Hahnemuhle 350g, 40 x 40 cm, signed hand, with certificate of authenticity, produced in Italy and sold by Agent.
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Giclée on PhotoRag Hahnemuhle 350g + certificate of authenticity
"Art is not about representing new things, but about representing them with novelty"
title: Giove redarguito – Urban Intervention
The work is based on Jupiter Reproved by Venus, an intense seventeenth-century composition by the Flemish master Abraham Janssens.
The original painting fully embodies Baroque tension: theatricality, the plastic strength of the bodies, emotional dynamism, and mythology as a representation of power. Jupiter, king of the gods, is captured in a moment of confrontation with Venus, in a scene charged with energy and pathos.
In this contemporary intervention, the classical balance is deliberately altered.
Across Jupiter’s body appear large tattoos in Japanese style, elaborate and symbolic, transforming divine authority into a surface marked by culture and identity. The idealized body of Baroque tradition thus becomes a space for personal narrative and visual stratification.
Additional tattoos were added on the shoulders of the female figure placed to the left (not on Venus), emphasizing the contrast between classical myth and contemporary language. These marks act as statements, almost as visual armor, destabilizing the formal purity of the original.
The background has been reconsidered through the insertion of urban graffiti: marked walls, paint stratifications, traces of street culture replace the traditional setting. Olympus is carried into the urban space.
The result is a temporal collision:
Baroque mythology meets metropolitan aesthetics,
power timelessly dialogues with contemporary identity,
art history opens to a current visual language.
The intervention does not erase the original work, but re-activates it, putting it in tension with the present and inviting the viewer to reread the codes of power, the body, and representation.
A dialogue between 17th-century Flemish painting and contemporary visual language, questioning power, authorship, and permanence
Slasky is an Italian digital artist; his works have been exhibited worldwide, including at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and published in fashion magazines, tattoo magazines, 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.
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
Swiss
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, Swiss
Lang Leve Rembrandt
Rijks Museum Amsterdam
Giclée on PhotoRag Hahnemuhle 350g + certificate of authenticity
"Art is not about representing new things, but about representing them with novelty"
title: Giove redarguito – Urban Intervention
The work is based on Jupiter Reproved by Venus, an intense seventeenth-century composition by the Flemish master Abraham Janssens.
The original painting fully embodies Baroque tension: theatricality, the plastic strength of the bodies, emotional dynamism, and mythology as a representation of power. Jupiter, king of the gods, is captured in a moment of confrontation with Venus, in a scene charged with energy and pathos.
In this contemporary intervention, the classical balance is deliberately altered.
Across Jupiter’s body appear large tattoos in Japanese style, elaborate and symbolic, transforming divine authority into a surface marked by culture and identity. The idealized body of Baroque tradition thus becomes a space for personal narrative and visual stratification.
Additional tattoos were added on the shoulders of the female figure placed to the left (not on Venus), emphasizing the contrast between classical myth and contemporary language. These marks act as statements, almost as visual armor, destabilizing the formal purity of the original.
The background has been reconsidered through the insertion of urban graffiti: marked walls, paint stratifications, traces of street culture replace the traditional setting. Olympus is carried into the urban space.
The result is a temporal collision:
Baroque mythology meets metropolitan aesthetics,
power timelessly dialogues with contemporary identity,
art history opens to a current visual language.
The intervention does not erase the original work, but re-activates it, putting it in tension with the present and inviting the viewer to reread the codes of power, the body, and representation.
A dialogue between 17th-century Flemish painting and contemporary visual language, questioning power, authorship, and permanence
Slasky is an Italian digital artist; his works have been exhibited worldwide, including at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and published in fashion magazines, tattoo magazines, 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.
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
Swiss
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, Swiss
Lang Leve Rembrandt
Rijks Museum Amsterdam
Details
Artist
Slasky
Sold by
Agent
Edition
Limited edition
Title of artwork
Giove redarguito da Venere
Technique
Giclée
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2024
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
40 cm
Width
40 cm
Style
Pop Art
Period
2020+
Sold with frame
No
