NOVA - The View from Halfway Down

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Giclée print on museum-quality A3 paper (29.7 x 42 cm, 300 g/m²) by NOVA titled 'The View from Halfway Down', hand-signed, year 2026, edition 1/5 in excellent condition, produced in Italy and sold directly by the artist.

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GICLEE PRINT ON PREMIUM MUSEUM-QUALITY A3 PAPER, 29.7 x 42 cm, 300 g/m², IN A LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 5 COPIES.

This intense digital artwork, created on a computer, is a visual tribute to one of the most iconic and dramatic scenes in the animated series. It depicts BoJack Horseman drowning in the abyssal darkness of his own pool, wearing his classic green jacket.

The image captures a moment of desperate vulnerability: BoJack, with a lost expression, reaches a hand upward, where another hand descends from the illuminated surface to attempt a rescue. The digital, textural brushstrokes evoke a sense of weight and struggle, recalling the mournful lyric of the poetry that gives the work its title and the inevitability of the fall.

Production Method: Development of a preliminary visual-architecture through AI generative models to define composition, tonal values, and color schemes, followed by a meticulous manual digital painting intervention aimed at perfecting anatomy, integrating customized textures, and imprinting the artist's distinctive stylistic signature.

The Artist: "NOVA"
NOVA is a 23-year-old Italian artist, a key figure in the SSICK LAB collective. Raised with a visceral passion for art and pop culture, NOVA brings to the team a vision focused on dynamism and visual storytelling. Her mission is to give a physical and collaborative structure to an imagination drawn from American and Japanese animation, merging the iconic aesthetics of contemporary media with historical visual languages.

Within the LAB, NOVA explores new expressive frontiers, contributing to a perfect synthesis where technological innovation constantly serves pure creativity. Through her sensibility, she transforms individual insights into choral works, pushing the boundaries of modern art with an approach that unites technique and heart.

Key points of NOVA's vision:
Generational Roots: Class of 2003, carrying the visual heritage of digital natives, blending web speed with the depth of animated storytelling.
Cross-Cultural Experimentation: A constant bridge between classical art history, the fluidity of Japanese Sakuga, and the iconic design of American animation.
Synergy in the Collective: Regards teamwork within SSICK LAB as a natural extension of her own artistic language, where collaboration elevates the individual stroke.
Aesthetics of Moving Image: The pursuit of an aesthetics that remains tangible while preserving the energy and expressiveness typical of the great masters of international animation.
"My goal is to make the rigor of the past dialogue with the vibrant energy of the animated worlds that shaped our generation."

We use exclusively premium couriers with priority handling. The shipping includes full insurance on the work'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: 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 Translate

GICLEE PRINT ON PREMIUM MUSEUM-QUALITY A3 PAPER, 29.7 x 42 cm, 300 g/m², IN A LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 5 COPIES.

This intense digital artwork, created on a computer, is a visual tribute to one of the most iconic and dramatic scenes in the animated series. It depicts BoJack Horseman drowning in the abyssal darkness of his own pool, wearing his classic green jacket.

The image captures a moment of desperate vulnerability: BoJack, with a lost expression, reaches a hand upward, where another hand descends from the illuminated surface to attempt a rescue. The digital, textural brushstrokes evoke a sense of weight and struggle, recalling the mournful lyric of the poetry that gives the work its title and the inevitability of the fall.

Production Method: Development of a preliminary visual-architecture through AI generative models to define composition, tonal values, and color schemes, followed by a meticulous manual digital painting intervention aimed at perfecting anatomy, integrating customized textures, and imprinting the artist's distinctive stylistic signature.

The Artist: "NOVA"
NOVA is a 23-year-old Italian artist, a key figure in the SSICK LAB collective. Raised with a visceral passion for art and pop culture, NOVA brings to the team a vision focused on dynamism and visual storytelling. Her mission is to give a physical and collaborative structure to an imagination drawn from American and Japanese animation, merging the iconic aesthetics of contemporary media with historical visual languages.

Within the LAB, NOVA explores new expressive frontiers, contributing to a perfect synthesis where technological innovation constantly serves pure creativity. Through her sensibility, she transforms individual insights into choral works, pushing the boundaries of modern art with an approach that unites technique and heart.

Key points of NOVA's vision:
Generational Roots: Class of 2003, carrying the visual heritage of digital natives, blending web speed with the depth of animated storytelling.
Cross-Cultural Experimentation: A constant bridge between classical art history, the fluidity of Japanese Sakuga, and the iconic design of American animation.
Synergy in the Collective: Regards teamwork within SSICK LAB as a natural extension of her own artistic language, where collaboration elevates the individual stroke.
Aesthetics of Moving Image: The pursuit of an aesthetics that remains tangible while preserving the energy and expressiveness typical of the great masters of international animation.
"My goal is to make the rigor of the past dialogue with the vibrant energy of the animated worlds that shaped our generation."

We use exclusively premium couriers with priority handling. The shipping includes full insurance on the work'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: 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 Translate

Details

Artist
NOVA
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Limited edition
Edition number
1/5
Title of artwork
The View from Halfway Down
Technique
Giclée, Mixed technique
Signature
Hand 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
Sold by
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Objects sold
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