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A3 giclée print on 300 g/m² museum-quality paper, 29.7 x 42 cm, edition 1/5, titled 'The Demon Slayer's Blood-Red Bloom' by SSICK, hand-signed, in excellent condition and produced in 2026, sold directly by the artist from Italy.
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Giclée print on premium museum-quality paper A3, 29.7 x 42 cm, 300 g/m² in a limited edition of only 5 copies.
This digital print, which imitates the textured oil painting style, is an intense fusion of elements from anime pop culture and traditional Japanese art.
• Main Subject: It depicts Tanjiro Kamado, the protagonist of the Demon Slayer anime and manga. He is portrayed bust-length, with his signature scar on the forehead, the hanafuda earrings, and his green and black checkered haori. His gaze is fixed and determined.
• Surreal and Symbolic Background: The background is rich in symbolism and blends various elements:
• Ukiyo-e Art: Behind him rise stylized waves that recall Hokusai's famous "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," representing water and movement.
• Cherry Blossoms (Sakura): Branches of pink cherry blossoms bloom around his head, a classic symbol of Japan and the transience of life.
• Demon Eyes and Blood: Large unsettling, weeping demon eyes are incorporated among the flowers and in the sky, creating a dark, horror atmosphere. Some flowers themselves seem to weep droplets of blood.
Production Method: Development of a preliminary visual-architecture through AI generative models to define composition, tonal values, and color schemes, followed by meticulous manual digital painting to refine anatomy, integrate customized textures, and imprint the artist's distinctive stylistic signature.
The Artist: "SSICK"
SSICK is a 23-year-old Italian artist, raised with a visceral passion for art and pop culture. With the aim of giving a physical and collaborative structure to his vision, he founded SSICK LAB: a creative workshop born to experiment with the fusion between the iconic aesthetics of contemporary media and traditional visual languages.
The mission of SSICK is to explore new expressive frontiers, guiding the collective toward a perfect synthesis where technological innovation is constantly at the service of pure creativity. Through the LAB, the artist turns individual insights into collective works, challenging the boundaries of modern art.
Key points of SSICK's vision:
Generational Roots: Born in 2003, carrying the visual heritage of digital natives.
Experimentation: A constant bridge between the history of classical art and new media.
Creative Leadership: The collective as an extension of his artistic language.
We exclusively use 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.
Paper description: Paper finish: smooth.
Paper weight: 300 g/m², durable and long-lasting.
Environmental impact: FSC-certified paper or equivalent, in line 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 premium museum-quality paper A3, 29.7 x 42 cm, 300 g/m² in a limited edition of only 5 copies.
This digital print, which imitates the textured oil painting style, is an intense fusion of elements from anime pop culture and traditional Japanese art.
• Main Subject: It depicts Tanjiro Kamado, the protagonist of the Demon Slayer anime and manga. He is portrayed bust-length, with his signature scar on the forehead, the hanafuda earrings, and his green and black checkered haori. His gaze is fixed and determined.
• Surreal and Symbolic Background: The background is rich in symbolism and blends various elements:
• Ukiyo-e Art: Behind him rise stylized waves that recall Hokusai's famous "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," representing water and movement.
• Cherry Blossoms (Sakura): Branches of pink cherry blossoms bloom around his head, a classic symbol of Japan and the transience of life.
• Demon Eyes and Blood: Large unsettling, weeping demon eyes are incorporated among the flowers and in the sky, creating a dark, horror atmosphere. Some flowers themselves seem to weep droplets of blood.
Production Method: Development of a preliminary visual-architecture through AI generative models to define composition, tonal values, and color schemes, followed by meticulous manual digital painting to refine anatomy, integrate customized textures, and imprint the artist's distinctive stylistic signature.
The Artist: "SSICK"
SSICK is a 23-year-old Italian artist, raised with a visceral passion for art and pop culture. With the aim of giving a physical and collaborative structure to his vision, he founded SSICK LAB: a creative workshop born to experiment with the fusion between the iconic aesthetics of contemporary media and traditional visual languages.
The mission of SSICK is to explore new expressive frontiers, guiding the collective toward a perfect synthesis where technological innovation is constantly at the service of pure creativity. Through the LAB, the artist turns individual insights into collective works, challenging the boundaries of modern art.
Key points of SSICK's vision:
Generational Roots: Born in 2003, carrying the visual heritage of digital natives.
Experimentation: A constant bridge between the history of classical art and new media.
Creative Leadership: The collective as an extension of his artistic language.
We exclusively use 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.
Paper description: Paper finish: smooth.
Paper weight: 300 g/m², durable and long-lasting.
Environmental impact: FSC-certified paper or equivalent, in line 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
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Limited edition
Edition number
1/5
Title of artwork
The Demon Slayer's Blood-Red Bloom
Technique
Giclée, Mixed technique
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
42 cm
Width
29.7 cm
Period
2020+
Sold with frame
No
