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Giclée print on museum-quality A3 paper (29.7 x 42 cm, 300 g/m²) by SSICK LAB titled Imperial Happy Hour, a 1/5 limited edition from Italy (2026), signed and depicting pop culture with a Stormtrooper in an Izakaya setting.
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Giclée print on museum-quality premium A3 paper, 29.7 x 42 cm, 300 g/m², in a limited edition of only 5 copies.
This illustration blends the Star Wars universe with traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e aesthetics.
The piece depicts an iconic Stormtrooper taking a moment to unwind in a bar, holding a foaming beer mug.
The white armor of the Imperial soldier is rendered in a clean graphic style, enriched with delicate shading and crisp outlines.
The background is a riot of oriental decorative elements:
Warm, soft paper lanterns.
Seigaiha (waves) patterns and cherry blossoms in the ornamental border.
Shelves of bottles suggesting the intimate atmosphere of a typical Izakaya.
An ironic, visually striking contrast between the military rigidity of the Galaxy and the serenity of an evening in classical Japan.
Production method: Development of a preliminary visual architecture using AI generative models to define composition, tonal values, and color schemes, followed by a meticulous manual digital painting intervention aimed at perfecting anatomy, integrating custom textures, and imprinting the artist's distinctive stylistic signature.
The Collective: SSICK LAB
We are a collective of young Italian artists around 24 years old, born and raised with a visceral passion for art and pop culture. SSICK LAB was founded as a creative laboratory where we experiment with blending iconic aesthetics from contemporary media with historical visual languages. Our mission is to explore new expressive frontiers, placing technological innovation at the service of pure creativity.
We use exclusively premium couriers with priority handling. The shipment includes full insurance on the artwork's value and a real-time tracking system. It is a 'white-glove' service designed for those who do not compromise on delivery security.
description of paper: Paper finish: Matte, porous, non-reflective surface.
Weight of the paper: 300 g/m², durable and long-lasting.
Environmental impact: FSC-certified or equivalent paper, in compliance with sustainable practices.
Seller's Story
SSICK LAB is a contemporary artistic collective founded in 2025 by the Italian artist SSICK (born 2003), one of the youngest and most irreverent rising talents on the Italian scene. Born with the aim of exploring the boundary between technology, manual craft, and cultural provocation, SSICK LAB stands out for producing unique, limited art prints, created both with traditional techniques and through the deliberate use of artificial intelligence. Each print becomes an hybrid of digital error, aesthetic glitch, and human vision, reflecting the era we live in: between algorithmic chaos and the search for authenticity.
At the center of the collective is the figure of SSICK, who simultaneously pursues a more intimate and radical pictorial research. His manual paintings — oil, acrylic, and mixed media on canvas — move between conceptual art and abstraction with a strong pop imprint. His works reinterpret icons of mass culture (from ’90s cartoon characters to symbols of contemporary capitalism) to overturn their meaning and transform them into powerful anti-system messages. Irony, social critique, generational nihilism, and melancholy merge in compositions full of emotional tension and color.
A great passion of SSICK is also the world of Art Toys. He is, in fact, the creator of SSICKY, the collective’s iconic character: a grotesque, disturbed, and irresistibly collectible figure that represents the distorted alter ego of the artist and his generation. SSICKY appears in a limited sculptural version as well as inside many pictorial works and prints.
SSICK LAB is not only a production collective: it is a think tank, an attitude, a space where painting tradition, technology, and toy culture clash to generate something new, uncomfortable, and authentic.
“We don’t make art to please. We make art to infect.” — SSICK
Translated by Google TranslateGiclée print on museum-quality premium A3 paper, 29.7 x 42 cm, 300 g/m², in a limited edition of only 5 copies.
This illustration blends the Star Wars universe with traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e aesthetics.
The piece depicts an iconic Stormtrooper taking a moment to unwind in a bar, holding a foaming beer mug.
The white armor of the Imperial soldier is rendered in a clean graphic style, enriched with delicate shading and crisp outlines.
The background is a riot of oriental decorative elements:
Warm, soft paper lanterns.
Seigaiha (waves) patterns and cherry blossoms in the ornamental border.
Shelves of bottles suggesting the intimate atmosphere of a typical Izakaya.
An ironic, visually striking contrast between the military rigidity of the Galaxy and the serenity of an evening in classical Japan.
Production method: Development of a preliminary visual architecture using AI generative models to define composition, tonal values, and color schemes, followed by a meticulous manual digital painting intervention aimed at perfecting anatomy, integrating custom textures, and imprinting the artist's distinctive stylistic signature.
The Collective: SSICK LAB
We are a collective of young Italian artists around 24 years old, born and raised with a visceral passion for art and pop culture. SSICK LAB was founded as a creative laboratory where we experiment with blending iconic aesthetics from contemporary media with historical visual languages. Our mission is to explore new expressive frontiers, placing technological innovation at the service of pure creativity.
We use exclusively premium couriers with priority handling. The shipment includes full insurance on the artwork's value and a real-time tracking system. It is a 'white-glove' service designed for those who do not compromise on delivery security.
description of paper: Paper finish: Matte, porous, non-reflective surface.
Weight of the paper: 300 g/m², durable and long-lasting.
Environmental impact: FSC-certified or equivalent paper, in compliance with sustainable practices.
Seller's Story
SSICK LAB is a contemporary artistic collective founded in 2025 by the Italian artist SSICK (born 2003), one of the youngest and most irreverent rising talents on the Italian scene. Born with the aim of exploring the boundary between technology, manual craft, and cultural provocation, SSICK LAB stands out for producing unique, limited art prints, created both with traditional techniques and through the deliberate use of artificial intelligence. Each print becomes an hybrid of digital error, aesthetic glitch, and human vision, reflecting the era we live in: between algorithmic chaos and the search for authenticity.
At the center of the collective is the figure of SSICK, who simultaneously pursues a more intimate and radical pictorial research. His manual paintings — oil, acrylic, and mixed media on canvas — move between conceptual art and abstraction with a strong pop imprint. His works reinterpret icons of mass culture (from ’90s cartoon characters to symbols of contemporary capitalism) to overturn their meaning and transform them into powerful anti-system messages. Irony, social critique, generational nihilism, and melancholy merge in compositions full of emotional tension and color.
A great passion of SSICK is also the world of Art Toys. He is, in fact, the creator of SSICKY, the collective’s iconic character: a grotesque, disturbed, and irresistibly collectible figure that represents the distorted alter ego of the artist and his generation. SSICKY appears in a limited sculptural version as well as inside many pictorial works and prints.
SSICK LAB is not only a production collective: it is a think tank, an attitude, a space where painting tradition, technology, and toy culture clash to generate something new, uncomfortable, and authentic.
“We don’t make art to please. We make art to infect.” — SSICK
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Artist
ssick lab
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Limited edition
Edition number
1/5
Title of artwork
Imperial Happy Hour
Technique
Giclée, Mixed technique
Signature
Signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
42 cm
Width
29.7 cm
Depiction/theme
Pop Culture
Period
2020+
Sold with frame
No
