A Friday at the end of winter, a few hours to kill… and a basketball exhibition an hour away? Honey, start the Opel, we’re going to see Slip because he’s exhibiting in Lyon. What a funny sentence but you will see, everything is explained.
Slip? A nickname resulting from a musical delirium around a sound of the Smashing Pumpkins. SLip is fun, so SLip stayed.
But SLip, Sylvain for friends, is not just a funny name. SLip is above all an artist, specialized in digital collage, an artist who has already collaborated with Reverse in their Mook, and who currently rhymes some of his latest works with… the NBA.
Double Double What is it? Well as the name suggests, the Double Double exhibition is a double performance. On one side of art, paintings by great masters, here rather from a religious theme. But canvases… customized, pimped by the artist, revisited with his gaze, that of an NBA fan of the 90s. Double Double.
Because yes, Sylvain filled his bag with memories during the “Jordan years”, it transpires when you enter the premises of the expo, and because after all, this era of the NBA coincides rather well with the pious character tables chosen as a working basis. In the end, we are amazed, we go back 30 years at the same time but also in a kind of parallel world wedged between that of Velasquez and that of Larry Bird, while having the chance to exchange with the artistpresent on the scene as long as he can and by appointment, regional of the stage that he is since Sylvain is a child of Lyon.
[THREAD] Optional history course #NBA
Once Brothers
after “Marius prisoner at Minturnes” by Jean-Germain Drouais 1786
exhibited at the Louvre Museum pic.twitter.com/5NdM5ZyIu2— SLip (@iamSLip) March 6, 2023
Artistically it’s as original as it is successful, we like it editorially and we refer you to the painting entitled “Trashtalking”, and generally to titles of works so skilfully found (Irk with no D) that we would almost offer a job of editor to Sylvain.
But everyone has their own job and SLip does theirs pretty well.
If you want proof? It’s until March 31 at SOFFFA Lyon Guillotière, 27 rue de Cavenne in the seventh. With a bit of luck you will even come across other enthusiasts there, we came across el famous Valentin de NBA Legendaryand in any case, we strongly advise you to take a detour to see Sylvain’s work with your own eyes and, who knows, to decorate your living room with one of his works, because it still looks pretty good on a Stone wall.
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