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SSICK presents The Buster Sword Mercenary, a 2026 limited edition giclée on premium museum-quality A3 paper (30 x 42 cm, 300 g/m²), signed by hand and numbered 1/5, produced directly by the artist in Italy.
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Giclee print on premium museum-quality paper A3, 30 x 42 cm, 300 g/m², in a Limited Edition of only 5 copies.
This print depicts Cloud Strife, the legendary mercenary from Final Fantasy VII, in an intense, determined pose with a serious gaze and piercing blue eyes, spiky and wild blond hair, wearing dark armor with a blue metallic shoulder guard and black gloves as he grips the giant Buster Sword firmly on his right shoulder, rendered with thick brushstrokes in a textured impasto style in a dramatic urban fantasy look against a chaotic background of a wall covered in colorful graffiti.
Production method: This work was created starting from a draft generated with artistic artificial intelligence, used exclusively as a compositional basis and source of inspiration. Subsequently the image was imported into digital painting software and entirely reworked by hand by the artist with digital brushes, anatomical corrections, color layering, and personal textures. The final result is a unique and original piece, where the human painting intervention has completely transformed the initial generation into an authentic and expressive creation.
The Artist: "SSICK"
SSICK is an Italian artist of 23, raised with a visceral passion for art and pop culture. With the aim of giving physical and collaborative structure to his vision, he founded SSICK LAB: a creative laboratory formed to experiment with the fusion between the iconic aesthetics of contemporary media and historical 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: Class of 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 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 TranslateGiclee print on premium museum-quality paper A3, 30 x 42 cm, 300 g/m², in a Limited Edition of only 5 copies.
This print depicts Cloud Strife, the legendary mercenary from Final Fantasy VII, in an intense, determined pose with a serious gaze and piercing blue eyes, spiky and wild blond hair, wearing dark armor with a blue metallic shoulder guard and black gloves as he grips the giant Buster Sword firmly on his right shoulder, rendered with thick brushstrokes in a textured impasto style in a dramatic urban fantasy look against a chaotic background of a wall covered in colorful graffiti.
Production method: This work was created starting from a draft generated with artistic artificial intelligence, used exclusively as a compositional basis and source of inspiration. Subsequently the image was imported into digital painting software and entirely reworked by hand by the artist with digital brushes, anatomical corrections, color layering, and personal textures. The final result is a unique and original piece, where the human painting intervention has completely transformed the initial generation into an authentic and expressive creation.
The Artist: "SSICK"
SSICK is an Italian artist of 23, raised with a visceral passion for art and pop culture. With the aim of giving physical and collaborative structure to his vision, he founded SSICK LAB: a creative laboratory formed to experiment with the fusion between the iconic aesthetics of contemporary media and historical 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: Class of 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 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
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Limited edition
Edition number
1/5
Title of artwork
The Buster Sword Mercenary
Technique
Giclée, Mixed technique
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
42 cm
Width
30 cm
Period
2020+
Sold with frame
No
