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# The boss fight is offscreen in Leonardo Devito's Dark Souls
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/the-boss-fight-is-offscreen-in-leonardo-devitos-dark-souls/
- Published: 2026-09-29T15:14:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-29T15:14:52.000Z
- Description: The Florence-born painter puts the monitor, the keyboard and an unimpressed onlooker on canvas
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, painting, contemporary art, fine art, Art, dark souls, italy

A bare room with terracotta tiles. A young man on a stool, hunched at a desk, keyboard under both hands, mouse waiting, a boss arena glowing on the monitor. Behind the player, a woman in a green housedress caught mid-reproach, a shadow running long across the floor. The painting is called *Dark Souls* (2025), it is by the Italian painter [Leonardo Devito](https://www.leonardodevito.it/en/?ref=killscreen.com), and it reached the games side of the internet through [a post from Outsiders](https://www.instagram.com/p/Db-KVtZl3gp/?ref=killscreen.com), the editorial project run by Alfredo Accatino.

Devito was born in Florence in 1997 and works in Turin; Devito took a BA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and an MFA at the Accademia Albertina, and shows with [Ciaccia Levi](https://ciaccialevi.com/artists/leonardo-devito?ref=killscreen.com) in Paris and Milan and The Artist Room in London. The figuration runs Renaissance drawing through an underground filter, and childhood—its rooms, its supervision, its negotiations—keeps returning as a subject. 

Ten years ago Killscreen covered games crossing into painting from the other direction, when [official *Ico* and *Shadow of the Colossus* canvases went up for sale](https://www.killscreen.com/now-can-hang-ico-shadow-colossus-paintings-wall/)—the game's imagery, framed for your wall. Devito inverts the transaction. What hangs in the gallery now is not the world inside the monitor but the domestic apparatus around it: the desk, the posture, the person who wants the room back. Play has become a scene painting can take as seriously as a card game or a piano lesson.

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