Slasky - Hello

Giclée on cotton museum-grade canvas 380g + certificate of authenticity
UNFRAMED

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

On the skin, a contemporary tattoo — a living rose, almost pulsing — breaks the ideal purity of the classical subject. It is not decoration: it is a statement. It is identity etched, irremovable, that traverses time.

At the wrist, among golds and embroidery, an unexpected element appears: a small Hello Kitty pendant. Childish, pop, universal. Seemingly 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 everyday.

The title Hello is not a greeting, but an opening. A direct access between incompatible eras.
It is the entry 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 does not represent new things, but represents them with novelty »

Slasky (b. 1972, Italy) is a self-taught artist working from Artena, Rome. His practice emerged from outside the institutional art system — a background in manual labour that informs both the materiality of his work and the precision of its conceptual framework. Active since 2015, he has built an independent market presence across Europe and Asia before undertaking a decisive shift toward institutional research practice.

Selected Exhibitions (2015 — 2026)

Institutional highlight: Long Live Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2026. Work selected by the museum
jury from thousands of international submissions for exhibition within the museum's permanent collection
spaces. 15 July — 15 September 2019.

2026

* CI-AO
30 April - 28 May 2026
Via Del Vantaggio 28, Rome
Piazza del Popolo

* FACE2FACE
Laundry Studios · 5 – 9 March 2026

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2025

* Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition
Tokyo · 12 – 16 September 2025
* Art Parallax
London · 15 – 16 February 2025

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2024

* Waterloo — Solo Exhibition
Limassol · 10 – 20 December 2024
* ARTLAB 2024
Munich · 13 – 22 June 2024
* Must Be — Solo Exhibition
Anemi, Limassol · 3 – 10 February 2024
* Contemporary Venice 2024 — 13th Edition — Solo Exhibition
Venice · 12 – 15 January 2024

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2023

* Time Is An Illusion / Le temps est une illusion
Kramfors · 2 – 23 October 2023

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2022

* (UN)FAIR — (UN)DISCOVERED ART
Superstudio Maxi, Milan · 8 – 10 April 2022

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2021

* MIA Fair 2021
Superstudio Maxi, Milan · 7 – 10 October 2021
* Lausanne Art Fair
Lausanne · 30 September – 3 October 2021
* Lille Art Up!
Lille Grand Palais · 24 – 27 June 2021
* Works on Paper
Antibes · 18 March – 21 April 2021

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2020

* StreetArt // UrbanArt
Tozzo Atelier · 8 – 30 October 2020
* Work on Paper
Stockholm · 18 March – 21 April 2020

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2019

* Long Live Rembrandt ★ — Jury Selection
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · 15 July – 15 September 2019
* Wopart Art Fair
Lugano · 19 – 22 September 2019
* Andy Warhol Exhibition — Group Show
· 14 April – 23 September 2019

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2018

* Neo Urban Classic — Solo Exhibition
MGallery by Sofitel, Kaluga · 16 March 2018
* Anti Donald Trump
Creative Debuts, London · 12 – 18 July 2018

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2016

* Arte Firenze — Sandro Botticelli International Contemporary Art Prize
Florence · 18 – 20 November 2016
* Twitter Art Exhibition
Trygve Lie Gallery · 31 March – 21 April 2016

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2015

* HUMAN RIGHTS? — La Casa della Pace
Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto · 31 May – 30 August 2015