Slasky - San Michele

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“Art is not about representing new things, but representing them with novelty”


Title: Saint Michael (after Giordano)
Year: 2026
Technique: digital intervention on a Baroque artwork image, fine art print on museum paper

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Title: Unstable Icon (after Giordano)
Year: 2026
Technique: digital intervention on a Baroque image, fine art print on museum paper
Uniqueness: unique work

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Description

In this work, Slasky intervenes on a composition by Luca Giordano, transforming it into a field of visual and political tension. The key element is the angelic figure, rewritten through Captain America iconography: the starry chest and colors directly reference the American superhero, a symbol of power, ideology, and identity construction.

This overlay creates a visual and conceptual short circuit. The angel, once a figure of divine justice, becomes an ambiguous icon where sacred and propaganda coincide. It is no longer transcendence, but a cultural construction.

The pictorial space is saturated with signs, writings, and stratifications that recall the language of global urban expression. The Baroque image is not denied, but destabilized: rendered unstable, fragile, continually rewriteable.

The work sits within Slasky’s research on inherited images, transformed into contemporary relics traversed by conflict, memory, and power.

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Artist Bio

Slasky (b. 1972, Italy) is a self-taught artist based in Artena, Rome. His work originates outside institutional structures, shaped by a background in manual labour that informs both the physicality and conceptual rigor of his practice.

Since 2015, he has developed an independent market across Europe and Asia, later evolving toward a research-driven and institutionally oriented approach.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including selection by the jury of the Rijksmuseum.

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Selected Exhibitions (2015 — 2026)

2026
• FACE2FACE — Laundry Studios
5 – 9 March

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2025
• Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition — Tokyo
12 – 16 September

• Art Parallax — London
15 – 16 February

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2024
• Waterloo — Solo Exhibition, Limassol
10 – 20 December

• ARTLAB 2024 — Munich
13 – 22 June

• Must Be — Solo Exhibition, Anemi, Limassol
3 – 10 February

• Contemporary Venice 2024 — Solo Exhibition, Venice
12 – 15 January

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2023
• Time Is An Illusion / Le temps est une illusion — Kramfors
2 – 23 October

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2022
• (UN)FAIR — (UN)DISCOVERED ART — Superstudio Maxi, Milan
8 – 10 April

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2021
• MIA Fair — Superstudio Maxi, Milan
7 – 10 October

• Lausanne Art Fair — Lausanne
30 September – 3 October

• Lille Art Up! — Lille Grand Palais
24 – 27 June

• Works on Paper — Antibes
18 March – 21 April

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2020
• StreetArt // UrbanArt — Tozzo Atelier
8 – 30 October

• Works on Paper — Stockholm
18 March – 21 April

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2019
• Long Live Rembrandt — Rijksmuseum
15 July – 15 September

• Wopart Art Fair — Lugano
19 – 22 September

• Andy Warhol Exhibition — Group Show
14 April – 23 September

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2018
• Neo Urban Classic — Solo Exhibition, MGallery by Sofitel, Kaluga
16 March

• Anti Donald Trump — Creative Debuts, London
12 – 18 July

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2016
• Arte Firenze — Sandro Botticelli International Contemporary Art Prize — Florence
18 – 20 November

• Twitter Art Exhibition — Trygve Lie Gallery
31 March – 21 April

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2015
• HUMAN RIGHTS? — La Casa della Pace
Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto
31 May – 30 August