Artworks by Slasky

Slasky is an established Italian artist, whose work has been presented in solo and collective exhibitions at the international level, including an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, as well as in other international cultural spaces and contexts.

His research is based on the fusion between the heritage of classical art and contemporary languages, through digital techniques, works of mixed technique and conceptual practises. With a distinctive neo-urban language, Slasky establishes a dialogue between tradition and modernity, moving the protagonists of historical works to current social and visual contexts, generating new readings and multiple levels of meaning.

The Neo Urban Classic series was born from this need: to reinterpret original works of art through contemporary tools - digital and material - preserving their symbolic and cultural value, but inserting them into the present. The images, although immediately recognisable, are reworked in such a way that they require an active participation of the viewer in the understanding of the work, transforming the aesthetic experience into an act of critical participation.

Slasky's work combines urban influences and contemporary pop art, moving between image, matter and concept, and focussing his attention on the icons of our time and on those who have marked significant moments in history. The works evoke a sense of familiarity, enriched by determined chromatic interventions and by a visual vitality that renews its language.

Details, chromatic contrasts, material stratifications, structured backgrounds and the use of screen printing become tools to isolate and multiply the subject, detaching it from its original context and restoring it as an autonomous image, contemporary and loaded with symbolic tension


The art is not to represent new things, but to represent with novelty.