Patience (2026) Giclée print by Slasky

Patience by Slasky exists within a tension where classical iconography is filtered through contemporary, urban, and post-digital aesthetics. The work revisits the historical allegory of patience — traditionally associated with virtue, contemplation, and inner endurance — transforming it into a figure suspended between sacred imagery and contemporary visual culture.

By intervening on a composition rooted in Baroque portraiture, Slasky constructs a layered visual surface in which the authority of the traditional image is disrupted by contemporary codes: tattoos, artificial chromatic accents, graphic marks, and digital textures fracture the original stillness of the figure. The subject no longer functions as a fixed allegorical presence, but as a living body shaped by the present moment, mass visual culture, and the construction of personal identity.

The work operates as a temporal short circuit in which the past is not nostalgically preserved, but reactivated through appropriation and reinterpretation. The patience evoked in the title becomes more than a moral virtue; it emerges as a contemporary existential condition — one tied to endurance, psychological resilience, and the ability to remain present within an uninterrupted flow of images and stimuli.

Within Slasky’s visual language, classical imagery loses its institutional distance and becomes urban material, fluid iconography, and a surface open to transformation. Patience ultimately reflects on the survival of images in the digital era: images endure not by remaining untouched, but by continuously evolving.



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

* FACE2FACE
Laundry Studios · 5 – 9 March 2026

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2025

* Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition
Tokyo · 12 – 16 September 2025
* Art Parallax
London · 15 – 16 February 2025

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2024

* Waterloo — Solo Exhibition
Limassol · 10 – 20 December 2024
* ARTLAB 2024
Munich · 13 – 22 June 2024
* Must Be — Solo Exhibition
Anemi, Limassol · 3 – 10 February 2024
* Contemporary Venice 2024 — 13th Edition — Solo Exhibition
Venice · 12 – 15 January 2024

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2023

* Time Is An Illusion / Le temps est une illusion
Kramfors · 2 – 23 October 2023

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2022

* (UN)FAIR — (UN)DISCOVERED ART
Superstudio Maxi, Milan · 8 – 10 April 2022

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2021

* MIA Fair 2021
Superstudio Maxi, Milan · 7 – 10 October 2021
* Lausanne Art Fair
Lausanne · 30 September – 3 October 2021
* Lille Art Up!
Lille Grand Palais · 24 – 27 June 2021
* Works on Paper
Antibes · 18 March – 21 April 2021

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2020

* StreetArt // UrbanArt
Tozzo Atelier · 8 – 30 October 2020
* Work on Paper
Stockholm · 18 March – 21 April 2020

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2019

* Long Live Rembrandt ★ — Jury Selection
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · 15 July – 15 September 2019
* Wopart Art Fair
Lugano · 19 – 22 September 2019
* Andy Warhol Exhibition — Group Show
· 14 April – 23 September 2019

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2018

* Neo Urban Classic — Solo Exhibition
MGallery by Sofitel, Kaluga · 16 March 2018
* Anti Donald Trump
Creative Debuts, London · 12 – 18 July 2018

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2016

* Arte Firenze — Sandro Botticelli International Contemporary Art Prize
Florence · 18 – 20 November 2016
* Twitter Art Exhibition
Trygve Lie Gallery · 31 March – 21 April 2016

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2015

* HUMAN RIGHTS? — La Casa della Pace
Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto · 31 May – 30 August 2015

Materials used:

canvas, ink pigment

Details:

• Giclée print on Canvas
• From a limited edition of 8
• Size: 40 x 50 x 0.2cm (unframed) / 70 x 100cm (actual image size)
• Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
• Style: Urban and Pop
• Subject: People and portraits