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OUT OF TIME No. 01 is a limited edition 2026 giclée by Slasky, hand-signed, depicting a portrait, measuring 29.7 × 21 cm, produced in Italy in a contemporary style.
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OUT OF TIME SERIES
The past is not immobile. Just change the way we look at it.
Slasky returns to dismantle the barriers of time with a new series that pits art history against the visual codes of the present.
Images and languages of the painting tradition are traversed by geometric patterns, urban marks, graffiti and graphic interventions. Elements belonging to different eras and worlds meet on the same surface, creating a tension that changes the way we read the image without erasing its identity.
This is where this new inquiry begins: take something we know, intervene on it and compel ourselves to look at it again.
Slasky does not seek to make ancient painting contemporary. He leaves it intact in its strength and intervenes precisely at the point where that strength meets something unexpected. The result is an unstable balance between the solemnity of tradition and the freedom of the language of contemporary art.
Not a peaceful encounter between epochs, but a collision.
Because the history of art is not something we simply have behind us. It is still a living matter. And just one different look is enough to make it present again.
Seller's Story
Slasky once again begins to crack open the barriers of time with a work that acts as a refined visual and conceptual short circuit. At the center of the composition emerges the magnetic and indissoluble gaze of a classical feminine portrait, imbued with the meticulous realism typical of the great northern European painting tradition of the Seventeenth Century. The austere dignity of the noblewoman, framed by a lavish frilled white lace collar, is however intercepted, severed, and partially concealed by a geometric pattern of white and black diagonal stripes.
This graphic intervention is not a mere aesthetic overlay, but a powerful statement of urban poetics. Slasky introduces a pattern that immediately evokes the visual codes of contemporary road signage, Optical Art, and modern street graphics. The geometric crossbar acts as a barrier or censoring filter that fragments the face: one half remains faithful to its museum and historical dimension, while the other half dissolves into the cold rationality of the abstract code.
The work thus interrogates the perception of identity in the digital age. The face of the past, guardian of an intimate and solemn historical memory, is reactivated and compelled to dialogue with the syncopated rhythms and the brazen geometries of contemporary culture. To underscore this dichotomy, the choice of frame is decisive: a sumptuous black Baroque profile in relief that envelops the work, transforming the jarring pop contrast into a sacred object of museum-design.
With his unmistakable technical and editorial deftness, Slasky does not destroy the antique, but re-encodes it, proving that classical art belongs not only to the past, but is a living matter, ready to be traversed and re-signified by the symbols of our present.
Translated by Google TranslateOUT OF TIME SERIES
The past is not immobile. Just change the way we look at it.
Slasky returns to dismantle the barriers of time with a new series that pits art history against the visual codes of the present.
Images and languages of the painting tradition are traversed by geometric patterns, urban marks, graffiti and graphic interventions. Elements belonging to different eras and worlds meet on the same surface, creating a tension that changes the way we read the image without erasing its identity.
This is where this new inquiry begins: take something we know, intervene on it and compel ourselves to look at it again.
Slasky does not seek to make ancient painting contemporary. He leaves it intact in its strength and intervenes precisely at the point where that strength meets something unexpected. The result is an unstable balance between the solemnity of tradition and the freedom of the language of contemporary art.
Not a peaceful encounter between epochs, but a collision.
Because the history of art is not something we simply have behind us. It is still a living matter. And just one different look is enough to make it present again.
Seller's Story
Slasky once again begins to crack open the barriers of time with a work that acts as a refined visual and conceptual short circuit. At the center of the composition emerges the magnetic and indissoluble gaze of a classical feminine portrait, imbued with the meticulous realism typical of the great northern European painting tradition of the Seventeenth Century. The austere dignity of the noblewoman, framed by a lavish frilled white lace collar, is however intercepted, severed, and partially concealed by a geometric pattern of white and black diagonal stripes.
This graphic intervention is not a mere aesthetic overlay, but a powerful statement of urban poetics. Slasky introduces a pattern that immediately evokes the visual codes of contemporary road signage, Optical Art, and modern street graphics. The geometric crossbar acts as a barrier or censoring filter that fragments the face: one half remains faithful to its museum and historical dimension, while the other half dissolves into the cold rationality of the abstract code.
The work thus interrogates the perception of identity in the digital age. The face of the past, guardian of an intimate and solemn historical memory, is reactivated and compelled to dialogue with the syncopated rhythms and the brazen geometries of contemporary culture. To underscore this dichotomy, the choice of frame is decisive: a sumptuous black Baroque profile in relief that envelops the work, transforming the jarring pop contrast into a sacred object of museum-design.
With his unmistakable technical and editorial deftness, Slasky does not destroy the antique, but re-encodes it, proving that classical art belongs not only to the past, but is a living matter, ready to be traversed and re-signified by the symbols of our present.
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Edition
Limited edition
Artist
Slasky
Title of artwork
OUT OF TIME No. 01
Technique
Giclée
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
29.7 cm
Width
21 cm
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Contemporary
Sold with frame
No
Period
2020+
