Untitled (Mario Balotelli)

This mixed‑media canvas by Lord K2, titled Untitled (Mario Balotelli), brings the visual energy of street culture and global football into a single, portrait‑driven image. At 41" × 29", the work operates at a commanding scale, allowing layered paint, collage, or stencil elements (depending on the specific media used) to build up around Balotelli’s figure in a way that echoes mural and graffiti formats. London‑born and based in Tokyo, Lord K2 often explores tension between control and disorder in his practice, using photography and mixed media to engage with urban environments, street art, and public icons. A portrait of Balotelli—a player known as much for his personality and visibility as for his on‑field achievements—fits squarely within that interest in how charisma, controversy, and identity play out in the public eye. Signed “Lord K2” at the lower right, the canvas situates this football image within the artist’s broader body of work that documents and reinterprets street scenes and cultural figures across cities. Within the Mixed Media / Urban / Contemporary areas of The Askia Jones Collection, Untitled (Mario Balotelli) reinforces your thread on global Black and diasporic representation in sport and popular culture, connecting athletic iconography to the same visual languages of spray, stencil, and collage that appear in your other street‑influenced works.