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Angelo, a 2026 giclée in Baroque style, 40 × 50 cm, Italy, edition 2/5, in excellent condition and hand-signed.
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This work represents a sophisticated visual short circuit between the sacrality of Baroque painting and the profane, vernacular aesthetics of contemporary street culture. The central figure of the angel, drawn from the great European painting tradition of the seventeenth century, loses its intangible celestial purity to become an anthropomorphic canvas.
The subject's skin is entirely redefined through the integration of Old School (or American Traditional) tattoos: ships, eagles with outstretched wings, panthers and roses. These graphic elements are not merely superimposed, but are anatomically fused with the original painting material, respecting the delicate chiaroscuro nuances, the folds of flesh, and the texture of the underlying canvas.
To seal this trans-historical dialogue, the intrusion of pop, three-dimensional lettering signed Moschino intervenes, turning the work into a trans-avant-garde manifesto in which the high and the low, the sacred and the commercial, the classical past and the metropolitan present coexist in a perfect aesthetic synthesis. Framed in a sumptuous Baroque guild, the canvas questions the viewer about the fluidity of art and the rewriting of visual codes in the twenty-first century.
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
Parallax Art Fair
Kensington Town Hall
Hornton Street
London
W8 7NX
2024
Solo Exhibition
CONTEMPORARY VENICE
Palazzo Pisani-Revedin
S. Marco, 4013A , 30124 Venezia, Italia
ARTLAB
Benjamin Eck Gallery
Munich, Germany
2021
Mia Fair
The informazioni Photography Art Fair Italy
Milan, Italy
Lausanne Art Fair
Beaulieu Lausanne
Booth 59
Swiss
Lille ArtUp 2021
Lille, France
StreetArt//UrbanArt
Legnano, Italy
2020
Woodward Gallery
WashYourHands Exhibition
New York City, NY
RedSheep Gallery
Work in Paper
Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Wopart Art Fair 2019 / Centro Esposizioni - Lugano, Swiss
Lang Leve Rembrandt
Rijks Museum Amsterdam
#salvagecollection
#BreakthroughArtCollection
This work represents a sophisticated visual short circuit between the sacrality of Baroque painting and the profane, vernacular aesthetics of contemporary street culture. The central figure of the angel, drawn from the great European painting tradition of the seventeenth century, loses its intangible celestial purity to become an anthropomorphic canvas.
The subject's skin is entirely redefined through the integration of Old School (or American Traditional) tattoos: ships, eagles with outstretched wings, panthers and roses. These graphic elements are not merely superimposed, but are anatomically fused with the original painting material, respecting the delicate chiaroscuro nuances, the folds of flesh, and the texture of the underlying canvas.
To seal this trans-historical dialogue, the intrusion of pop, three-dimensional lettering signed Moschino intervenes, turning the work into a trans-avant-garde manifesto in which the high and the low, the sacred and the commercial, the classical past and the metropolitan present coexist in a perfect aesthetic synthesis. Framed in a sumptuous Baroque guild, the canvas questions the viewer about the fluidity of art and the rewriting of visual codes in the twenty-first century.
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
Parallax Art Fair
Kensington Town Hall
Hornton Street
London
W8 7NX
2024
Solo Exhibition
CONTEMPORARY VENICE
Palazzo Pisani-Revedin
S. Marco, 4013A , 30124 Venezia, Italia
ARTLAB
Benjamin Eck Gallery
Munich, Germany
2021
Mia Fair
The informazioni Photography Art Fair Italy
Milan, Italy
Lausanne Art Fair
Beaulieu Lausanne
Booth 59
Swiss
Lille ArtUp 2021
Lille, France
StreetArt//UrbanArt
Legnano, Italy
2020
Woodward Gallery
WashYourHands Exhibition
New York City, NY
RedSheep Gallery
Work in Paper
Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Wopart Art Fair 2019 / Centro Esposizioni - Lugano, Swiss
Lang Leve Rembrandt
Rijks Museum Amsterdam
#salvagecollection
#BreakthroughArtCollection
