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Francesco Podesti / Slasky presents Made In Europe, a limited edition giclée on Hahnemühle 350 g, 60 × 43 cm, dated 2025, hand-signed, from Italy, in excellent condition, with certificate of authenticity.
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Made in Europe (Ratto d’Europa) – Francesco Podesti / Slasky
In the contemporary reworking of the famous Rat of Europa, Slasky replaces Jupiter’s pure white bull with a inflated cow whose udders are disproportionate and its inflation valve visible. The operation is not merely parodic, but acts as an X-ray of the myth and its deformation persisting in the European imagination.
If in Ovid the metamorphosis of Jupiter is the supreme act of divine power, here the transformation becomes an act of consumption—reversible, fragile, temporary. The inflatable object — a symbol of serial production, mass tourism, and the continent’s “pop” rhetoric — substitutes mythic flesh with synthetic plastic and compressed air.
The inscription Made in Europe – Inflate responsibly introduces a metaeconomic and identitarian commentary: contemporary Europe is no longer abducted, but self-inflated, a prisoner of its own productive myth and the illusion of infinite expansion.
The scene remains suspended between the grotesque and the sublime: the cherubs continue to shoot arrows, but they strike a PVC simulacrum; the princess maintains her elegant gesture, but her mount is a toy, a promotional fetish of the consumerist civilization.
Slasky, as in many of his iconic rewritings, does not destroy the classical myth — he empties it, literally, of air. What remains is a shiny, inflatable, transparent surface: the thin skin of contemporary Europe, fragile and in constant danger of deflating.
Gicleè on Hahnemuhle 350gr + certificate of authenticity
« L'arte non è rappresentare cose nuove, ma rappresentarle con novità »
Slasky is a renowned Italian artist whose works have been exhibited in solo and group shows internationally.
The artist has the ability to fuse classical works of art with techniques of contemporary digital art. With his neo-urban classical style, he combines tradition and modernity, bringing the protagonists of the original artworks into contemporary social and artistic environments.
Prossima mostra
FACE 2 FACE
March 5th
Laundry Studios
2 Warburton Rd, London E8 3RT
UK
Ultime Mostre
Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition
Venue Address
3 Chome-20-18 Jingumae, Shibuya,
Tokyo 150-0001,
Japan
Parallax Art Fair
Kensington Town Hall
Hornton Street
London
W8 7NX
2024
Solo Exhibition
CONTEMPORARY VENICE
Palazzo Pisani-Revedin
S. Marco, 4013A , 30124 Venezia, Italia
ARTLAB
Benjamin Eck Gallery
Munich, Germany
2021
Mia Fair
The informazioni Photography Art Fair Italy
Milan, Italy
ST-ART, STRASBOURG 2021
25 - 28 NOV. 2021
PARC EXPO STRASBOURG
SM'ART AIX-EN-PROVENCE, 2021
14 - 18 OCTOBER 2021
BOOTH 123A
2021
Mia Fair
The informazioni Photography Art Fair Italy
Milan, Italy
Lausanne Art Fair
Beaulieu Lausanne
Booth 59
Swiss
Lille ArtUp 2021
Lille, France
StreetArt//UrbanArt
Legnano, Italy
2020
Woodward Gallery
WashYourHands Exhibition
New York City, NY
RedSheep Gallery
Work in Paper
Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Wopart Art Fair 2019 / Centro Esposizioni - Lugano, Swiss
Lang Leve Rembrandt
Rijks Museum Amsterdam
Made in Europe (Ratto d’Europa) – Francesco Podesti / Slasky
In the contemporary reworking of the famous Rat of Europa, Slasky replaces Jupiter’s pure white bull with a inflated cow whose udders are disproportionate and its inflation valve visible. The operation is not merely parodic, but acts as an X-ray of the myth and its deformation persisting in the European imagination.
If in Ovid the metamorphosis of Jupiter is the supreme act of divine power, here the transformation becomes an act of consumption—reversible, fragile, temporary. The inflatable object — a symbol of serial production, mass tourism, and the continent’s “pop” rhetoric — substitutes mythic flesh with synthetic plastic and compressed air.
The inscription Made in Europe – Inflate responsibly introduces a metaeconomic and identitarian commentary: contemporary Europe is no longer abducted, but self-inflated, a prisoner of its own productive myth and the illusion of infinite expansion.
The scene remains suspended between the grotesque and the sublime: the cherubs continue to shoot arrows, but they strike a PVC simulacrum; the princess maintains her elegant gesture, but her mount is a toy, a promotional fetish of the consumerist civilization.
Slasky, as in many of his iconic rewritings, does not destroy the classical myth — he empties it, literally, of air. What remains is a shiny, inflatable, transparent surface: the thin skin of contemporary Europe, fragile and in constant danger of deflating.
Gicleè on Hahnemuhle 350gr + certificate of authenticity
« L'arte non è rappresentare cose nuove, ma rappresentarle con novità »
Slasky is a renowned Italian artist whose works have been exhibited in solo and group shows internationally.
The artist has the ability to fuse classical works of art with techniques of contemporary digital art. With his neo-urban classical style, he combines tradition and modernity, bringing the protagonists of the original artworks into contemporary social and artistic environments.
Prossima mostra
FACE 2 FACE
March 5th
Laundry Studios
2 Warburton Rd, London E8 3RT
UK
Ultime Mostre
Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition
Venue Address
3 Chome-20-18 Jingumae, Shibuya,
Tokyo 150-0001,
Japan
Parallax Art Fair
Kensington Town Hall
Hornton Street
London
W8 7NX
2024
Solo Exhibition
CONTEMPORARY VENICE
Palazzo Pisani-Revedin
S. Marco, 4013A , 30124 Venezia, Italia
ARTLAB
Benjamin Eck Gallery
Munich, Germany
2021
Mia Fair
The informazioni Photography Art Fair Italy
Milan, Italy
ST-ART, STRASBOURG 2021
25 - 28 NOV. 2021
PARC EXPO STRASBOURG
SM'ART AIX-EN-PROVENCE, 2021
14 - 18 OCTOBER 2021
BOOTH 123A
2021
Mia Fair
The informazioni Photography Art Fair Italy
Milan, Italy
Lausanne Art Fair
Beaulieu Lausanne
Booth 59
Swiss
Lille ArtUp 2021
Lille, France
StreetArt//UrbanArt
Legnano, Italy
2020
Woodward Gallery
WashYourHands Exhibition
New York City, NY
RedSheep Gallery
Work in Paper
Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Wopart Art Fair 2019 / Centro Esposizioni - Lugano, Swiss
Lang Leve Rembrandt
Rijks Museum Amsterdam
Details
Artist
Slasky
Sold by
Agent
Edition
Limited edition
Title of artwork
Made In Europe
Technique
Giclée
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
60 cm
Width
43 cm
Depiction/theme
Pop Culture
Style
Baroque
Period
2020+
Sold with frame
No
