Santicri - Snapshot, Neutral face

Santicri has participated in numerous internationally renowned art exhibitions. Among the most significant, in 2022 he exhibited his works at the prestigious Palazzo Grillo in Genoa, and in 2023 he attended the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York, thus expanding his visibility in both national and international contexts.
Santicri was recognized among the Best-Selling Artists of 2024 by Artmayeur, one of the most renowned platforms in the art world. In the same year, he was also placed among the top three most searched names on the Catawiki platform, another sign of the growing appreciation for his work. These recognitions highlight his extraordinary talent and the ever-greater visibility of Santicri in the contemporary art scene.

Santicri
Mixed media, acrylic
Dimensions: 70x50x20 cm
Certificate of authenticity - hand-signed
Unique Artwork

This work merges painting and object, transforming an immediate and recognizable image into a physical gesture suspended in time. The brush, embedded in the canvas, is not merely a tool but a living trace of the action, as if the mark had stopped exactly at the moment it was happening.

The neutral face, universal icon of detachment and emotional ambiguity, is reinterpreted through a broad and imperfect mark, crossed by drips that crack its apparent static nature. The expression remains suspended: neither positive nor negative, but blocked in an intermediate zone where emotion and the absence of emotion coexist. What normally communicates immediacy in the digital realm becomes something more unstable and human.

The insertion of the brush breaks the two-dimensional surface and moves the work into a hybrid dimension, between painting and sculpture. From it emerges a reflection on gesture as a real act, on matter as a trace of time, and on contemporary neutrality as an emotional mask: an apparently empty expression that, precisely in its fragile balance, ends up telling of tension, distance, and vulnerability.

SHIPPED WITH INSURANCE!
The package is carefully packed. The canvas is shipped already mounted on a wooden frame; frame not included.

The artist established himself in 2024 as one of the most sought-after names on Catawiki, immediately behind icons such as Kaws and Banksy. His art stands out in an exclusive context that includes other categories of excellence, such as Rolex, Lego, Louis Vuitton, Porsche, Eames, Macallan, Tintin, Cartier, and Pokémon. A talent recognized not only for creative value but also as one of the most promising investments of the year.

Born in 1992 in Macerata, Marche, the Italian artist followed a path that, between studies in Surveying and Architecture, led him to collaborate with a resin sculpture craftsman. There arose the ever-stronger need to find himself and unleash his creativity.

His works are sold worldwide, collaborating with galleries in Italy and Europe.
His art is widely appreciated and cannot be missing among collectors of street art, pop art, and contemporary art paintings and sculptures.
"It’s never easy to categorize one’s art; I try to convey what my eyes see, my way of perceiving what surrounds me, and I recombine it with a design that harmonizes with modern times: impactful and memorable."