Slasky - Cupids

The work presents itself as a dense semantic stratification in which the Italian artist Slasky appropriates the Rococo painting Amorini. Allegory of François Boucher's painting, it radically redefines its formal balance through a provocative intervention inspired by the aesthetics of street art and post-internet culture.

At the center of the composition, where originally a putto depicted a neoclassical sculpted bust under the attentive gaze of its companion, Slasky inserts the universal icon of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, which is real-time desecrated by the amoretti in the foreground painting on her face the famous red mustaches in an explicit and ironic homage to Marcel Duchamp's ready-made L.H.O.O.Q.

This same chromatic mischief affects the winged putto in the background, whose iconic red mustaches immediately recall the graffiti-styled, irreverent Pop Art of contemporary times.

On the left, the ancient marble bust appears partially shattered and vandalized by red and black spray-paint writings that evoke an aesthetic and ideological rebellion, overlaying historical references and conceptual slogans such as the name "Jean" and the date "1789" linked to the French Revolution, the expression "Marat's Mistake" echoing Jacques-Louis David's famous work, up to the artist's signature, the wording "Iconoclas" and the provocative question "Art is dead?".

The classical Boucher palette, characterized by soft pastel clouds and warm flesh tones, is thus violated by the visual violence of acrylic colors and anarchic symbols, transforming the idyllic harmony of the eighteenth century into a fluid and layered visual manifesto that confronts the viewer about the value of originality, the survival of museum myths, and the very act of making art in our century.

« Art is not about representing new things, but representing them with novelty »

Slasky is an established Italian artist whose works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally.

The artist has the ability to fuse classical artworks with techniques of contemporary digital art. With his neo-urban classic style, he combines tradition and modernity, bringing the protagonists of the original works into contemporary social and artistic environments.

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

FACE 2 FACE
March 5th
Laundry Studios
2 Warburton Rd, London E8 3RT
UK

Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition
Venue Address
3 Chome-20-18 Jingumae, Shibuya,
Tokyo 150-0001,
Japan

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

ST-ART, STRASBOURG 2021
25 - 28 NOV. 2021
PARC EXPO STRASBOURG

SM'ART AIX-EN-PROVENCE, 2021
14 - 18 OCTOBER 2021
BOOTH 123A

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