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Slasky, WELCOME BACK TO MARS, 2016, mixed media on paper (collage), original edition, 16.5 cm high by 11.5 cm wide, signed by hand in Italy.
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WELCOME BACK TO MARS
Martians Access (Life on Mars)
Analog collage on paper, postcard format, 2016
Slasky
Any body at all — yellow blazer, polka dot shirt, female hands with lacquered nails — supports a head that is no longer a head: a device, a space-helmet-shaped television, orange against an acidic green background.
On the screen, embedded like a relic within the black frame of the cathode-ray tube, the face of Bowie-Aladdin Sane, a lightning bolt painted on the cheek, eyes closed.
He does not look: he is looked at, transmitted, rendered as an image twice — first by the photographer who shot him, then by the one who locked him inside this domestic seventies contraption.
Around the neck, a badge: Martians Access. Scan me.
A real QR code, functioning, glued over the jacket like a pass.
Framing him with a phone, the code opens not a simple link but a temporal portal: the original video of Life on Mars?, the man singing of a world replaced by another, mediated, shoddy.
Who scans does not view content — they cross a threshold that returns them to an era when mediated imagery was still an exception, not the rule. The collage thus anticipates its own consumption: the analog work, hand-cut, already contains the digital doorway that will complete it on the spectator’s smartphone, a doorway that goes backward rather than forward.
The human face — the true one, Bowie’s face in the seventies, already made up, already masked, already “martian” — reaches us through three layers of screen: the cover of a record, the collage’s space-helmet television, the display of the phone scanning, and beyond those three layers, time itself.
It is the core of Slasky’s work: emotion does not disappear, it multiplies in technologies that promise it and push it away — until one of those technologies, for a moment, brings it back intact.
Provenance: Trygve Lie Gallery, New York — Twitter Art Exhibit, 2016.
« Art is not about representing new things, but about representing them with novelty »
Slasky (b. 1972, Italy) is a self-taught artist working from Artena, Rome. His practice emerged from outside
the institutional art system — a background in manual labour that informs both the materiality of his work and
the precision of its conceptual framework. Active since 2015, he has built an independent market presence
across Europe and Asia before undertaking a decisive shift toward institutional research practice.
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
⸻
2025
* Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition
Tokyo · 12 – 16 September 2025
* Art Parallax
London · 15 – 16 February 2025
⸻
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
⸻
2023
* Time Is An Illusion / Le temps est une illusion
Kramfors · 2 – 23 October 2023
⸻
2022
* (UN)FAIR — (UN)DISCOVERED ART
Superstudio Maxi, Milan · 8 – 10 April 2022
⸻
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
⸻
2020
* StreetArt // UrbanArt
Tozzo Atelier · 8 – 30 October 2020
* Work on Paper
Stockholm · 18 March – 21 April 2020
⸻
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
⸻
2018
* Neo Urban Classic — Solo Exhibition
MGallery by Sofitel, Kaluga · 16 March 2018
* Anti Donald Trump
Creative Debuts, London · 12 – 18 July 2018
⸻
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
⸻
2015
* HUMAN RIGHTS? — La Casa della Pace
Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto · 31 May – 30 August 2015
WELCOME BACK TO MARS
Martians Access (Life on Mars)
Analog collage on paper, postcard format, 2016
Slasky
Any body at all — yellow blazer, polka dot shirt, female hands with lacquered nails — supports a head that is no longer a head: a device, a space-helmet-shaped television, orange against an acidic green background.
On the screen, embedded like a relic within the black frame of the cathode-ray tube, the face of Bowie-Aladdin Sane, a lightning bolt painted on the cheek, eyes closed.
He does not look: he is looked at, transmitted, rendered as an image twice — first by the photographer who shot him, then by the one who locked him inside this domestic seventies contraption.
Around the neck, a badge: Martians Access. Scan me.
A real QR code, functioning, glued over the jacket like a pass.
Framing him with a phone, the code opens not a simple link but a temporal portal: the original video of Life on Mars?, the man singing of a world replaced by another, mediated, shoddy.
Who scans does not view content — they cross a threshold that returns them to an era when mediated imagery was still an exception, not the rule. The collage thus anticipates its own consumption: the analog work, hand-cut, already contains the digital doorway that will complete it on the spectator’s smartphone, a doorway that goes backward rather than forward.
The human face — the true one, Bowie’s face in the seventies, already made up, already masked, already “martian” — reaches us through three layers of screen: the cover of a record, the collage’s space-helmet television, the display of the phone scanning, and beyond those three layers, time itself.
It is the core of Slasky’s work: emotion does not disappear, it multiplies in technologies that promise it and push it away — until one of those technologies, for a moment, brings it back intact.
Provenance: Trygve Lie Gallery, New York — Twitter Art Exhibit, 2016.
« Art is not about representing new things, but about representing them with novelty »
Slasky (b. 1972, Italy) is a self-taught artist working from Artena, Rome. His practice emerged from outside
the institutional art system — a background in manual labour that informs both the materiality of his work and
the precision of its conceptual framework. Active since 2015, he has built an independent market presence
across Europe and Asia before undertaking a decisive shift toward institutional research practice.
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
⸻
2025
* Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition
Tokyo · 12 – 16 September 2025
* Art Parallax
London · 15 – 16 February 2025
⸻
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
⸻
2023
* Time Is An Illusion / Le temps est une illusion
Kramfors · 2 – 23 October 2023
⸻
2022
* (UN)FAIR — (UN)DISCOVERED ART
Superstudio Maxi, Milan · 8 – 10 April 2022
⸻
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
⸻
2020
* StreetArt // UrbanArt
Tozzo Atelier · 8 – 30 October 2020
* Work on Paper
Stockholm · 18 March – 21 April 2020
⸻
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
⸻
2018
* Neo Urban Classic — Solo Exhibition
MGallery by Sofitel, Kaluga · 16 March 2018
* Anti Donald Trump
Creative Debuts, London · 12 – 18 July 2018
⸻
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
⸻
2015
* HUMAN RIGHTS? — La Casa della Pace
Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto · 31 May – 30 August 2015
Details
Artist
Slasky
Sold by
Agent
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
WELCOME BACK TO MARS
Technique
Mixed technique
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2016
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
16.5 cm
Width
11.5 cm
Depiction/theme
Pop Culture
Style
Pop Art
Period
2010-2020
Sold with frame
No
