Slasky - After Iconography No. 1

Analog Collage

This body of work uses analog collage as a temporal collision device between images belonging to incompatible cultural systems. Each composition is built exclusively through the direct superimposition of two pre-existing rectangular paper fragments, kept in their physical integrity, with no tears or gestures of expressive intervention.

The work arises from the tension between different visual regimes: historical painting, sacred iconography, contemporary publishing, mass media culture, advertising or commercial communication. The images are not manipulated but simply re-contextualized in the same physical space, turning collage into an act of archiving, compression, and cultural friction.

The compositional structure derives from editorial language and printed graphics: vertical surfaces, clear blocks, rigorous alignments, controlled proportional relationships. The aesthetic deliberately avoids any decorative nostalgia or handmade virtuosity, instead privileging a cold, almost administrative presence, where the images seem cataloged, censored, paginated, or accidentally superimposed.

In these works the historical fragment loses its original aura, coming into contact with contemporary visual language, while the commercial image takes on an unexpected archaeological quality. The collage thus becomes a contemporary relic: an object suspended between museum, editorial print, and cultural archive.

« L'arte non è rappresentare cose nuove, ma rappresentarle con novità »

Slasky is a well-established Italian artist whose works have been exhibited in solo and group shows internationally.

The artist has the ability to fuse classical artworks with techniques of contemporary digital art. With his neo-urban classic style, he merges tradition and modernity, bringing the protagonists of original artworks into contemporary social and artistic environments.

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