Skygolpe (Italian, b. 1986) is a self-taught artist working across painting, photography, digital art, and installation, known for faceless silhouettes that explore identity, anonymity, and the boundary between physical and digital media.,He moved to London at eighteen and became involved in the city's street art scene under different pseudonyms before shifting his practice toward hybrid physical-digital work.
In late 2019 he began minting on NFT platforms such as SuperRare, and in 2020 his work private views, installed in Somnium Space with architecture by Desiree Casoni, was presented by the Museum of Crypto Art.,In 2022 he debuted the Paint on Pixel series, pairing physical canvases with NFT certificates, at Christie's Trespassing III online auction in New York, curated by Ronnie K.,Pirovino.,That July, Christie's sold an NFT certificate for his painting PX4826E for $69,300, a sale Italian press described as the auction house's first sale of an NFT tied to a physical artwork.In May 2024 Christie's Hong Kong sold his painting PX8371S for HK$1,008,000 (about $129,000), an auction record for the artist.,
In November 2023 the Dubai gallery Foundry presented his solo exhibition “Third Dimension”, produced by Valuart and curated by Giuseppe Moscatello, bringing together his Paint on Pixel canvases with a new AI photographic series.,The name Skygolpe blends “Sky”, denoting infinity, with “Golpe”, indicating human intervention. His faceless silhouettes recur across the work, appearing with disintegrating edges that gradually take over each composition.
In December 2024 he presented new Paint on Pixel canvases in New York alongside Digital Maieutics, a limited-edition artist's book staging a dialogue between two artificial intelligences, published by Printed in an edition of twenty.In May 2025 he realized BLACKOUT in Milan, a public billboard project pairing cryptic Italian-language statements with AI-generated imagery, choosing Italian for the first time to slow viewers' engagement with the work.,In November 2025 his solo exhibition “CTRL_ABSENCE” at Fellowship in London paired 21 video works with four large-format prints, revisiting street photographs from his early years in the city alongside AI-driven digital collage.,
