Slasky - Giove redarguito da Venere
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Slasky presents Giove redarguito da Venere, a 40 x 40 cm hand-signed giclée on PhotoRag Hahnemuhle 350 g with a certificate of authenticity (Edition: Edizione limitata, Year: 2024, Country of origin: Italy).
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Giclée on Photo Rag Hahnemuhle 350g/m² + certificate of authenticity
« Art is not about representing new things, but representing them with novelty »
title: Jupiter Reproached – Urban Intervention
The work is based on Jupiter reproached by Venus, an intense seventeenth-century composition by the Flemish master Abraham Janssens.
The original painting fully embodies the Baroque tension: theatricality, the plastic force of 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, classical balance is deliberately altered.
On Jupiter’s body appear wide tattoos in a Japanese style, elaborate and symbolic, transforming divine authority into a surface marked by culture and identity. The idealized body of the Baroque tradition thus becomes a place of personal storytelling and visual stratification.
Additional tattoos were inserted on the shoulders of the female figure placed on the left (not on Venus), emphasizing the contrast between classical myth and contemporary language. These marks act as elements of assertion, almost visual armors, that destabilize the pure formal quality of the original.
The background has been reimagined through the insertion of urban graffiti: marked walls, paint stratifications, traces of street culture replace the traditional setting. Olympus is transported into urban space.
The result is a temporal collision:
Baroque mythology meets metropolitan aesthetics,
eternal power dialogues with contemporary identity,
art history opens to a current visual language.
The intervention does not erase the original work, but reactivates it, putting it in tension with the present and inviting the spectator 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 shown 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 contributing to defining 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 Photo Rag Hahnemuhle 350g/m² + certificate of authenticity
« Art is not about representing new things, but representing them with novelty »
title: Jupiter Reproached – Urban Intervention
The work is based on Jupiter reproached by Venus, an intense seventeenth-century composition by the Flemish master Abraham Janssens.
The original painting fully embodies the Baroque tension: theatricality, the plastic force of 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, classical balance is deliberately altered.
On Jupiter’s body appear wide tattoos in a Japanese style, elaborate and symbolic, transforming divine authority into a surface marked by culture and identity. The idealized body of the Baroque tradition thus becomes a place of personal storytelling and visual stratification.
Additional tattoos were inserted on the shoulders of the female figure placed on the left (not on Venus), emphasizing the contrast between classical myth and contemporary language. These marks act as elements of assertion, almost visual armors, that destabilize the pure formal quality of the original.
The background has been reimagined through the insertion of urban graffiti: marked walls, paint stratifications, traces of street culture replace the traditional setting. Olympus is transported into urban space.
The result is a temporal collision:
Baroque mythology meets metropolitan aesthetics,
eternal power dialogues with contemporary identity,
art history opens to a current visual language.
The intervention does not erase the original work, but reactivates it, putting it in tension with the present and inviting the spectator 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 shown 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 contributing to defining 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
