Original artwork description:

Slasky - Reliquie/Relics No. 1

Mixed technique - Signed by hand - 2025

"Red Bull Icon" is part of the concept series

Compressed Relics by Slasky, in which everyday objects are physically compressed between glass and frame, turning into relics of our time.

The work presents a can collected on the street, crushed and set in a golden frame. An object of consumption, now without function, is stuck in space and time, elevated to a symbol of speed, of exhausted energy, of compressed urban identity.

Technique: ready / assembly

Materials: compressed can, glass, wood, fabric, paper

Frame: golden, with neutral passe-partout

Dimensions (including the frame): about 34 x 29 cm

Signature: by hand, bottom right

Certificate of authenticity included

Single piece - year 2025

The box becomes a centuries-old altar. The energy of the object is finite, but its image remains: frozen, protected, celebrated.

Tracked shipment and packaging

Professional included.

A Slasky concept series

This series is born from the radical act of compressing everyday objects, pop icons or residual materials between glass and frame, until they are transformed into contemporary relics.

Each work features a recognizable element - such as a crushed can, a visual fragment or a canvas - physically locked, nailed in time, in a space that normally celebrates art as a representation. Here, instead, art is pure matter: consumed, lived, deprived of function, but elevated to a symbol.

Visual tension

The compressed object generates a sense of discomfort, as if trying to get out. The golden frame - often baroque or bourgeois - amplifies this contrast between high form and downgraded content.

Material narration

Each element tells of a lived experience: the can is a symbol of consumption, energy, urban culture.

Other objects evoke memory, trauma, oblivion. The artistic gesture is not pictorial but mechanical, surgical, definitive.

Relic effect

The case becomes a secular altar, an archive of ruin, speed, compressed identity. Glass protects but also separates: it is distance, freezing, museum of the end.


Ultime Mostre

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

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

#salvagecollection

Materials used:

Aluminum, paper, wood and glass

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