The retrospective, including 12 paintings by the ‘Rocky’ and ‘Expendables’ star, is timed for the world premiere of Netflix’s ‘Sly’ Documentary at TIFF ahead of a streaming debut on Nov. 3.
Before becoming a superstar in Hollywood, Stallone as a young man started out as a painter, before choosing script writing and then acting as a career.
Another painting in the TIFF exhibit isan early-1970s work where a palette knife was used to carve the figure of a boxer onto the canvas, which was then framed with fight headlines from newspapers and a city skyline as Stallone turned to art to help flesh out hisThe exhibit also underlines Stallone’s early artistic inspiration from abstract expressionism and artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
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