Slasky - Made in Europe

Made in Europe (Ratto d’Europa) – Francesco Podesti / Slasky

In the contemporary remake of the famous Ratto d’Europa, Slasky replaces Jupiter’s pure white bull with an inflatable cow with disproportionately large udders and a visible inflation valve. The operation is not only parodic, but acts as an X-ray of the myth and its deformed persistence in the European imaginary.

If in Ovid the metamorphosis of Jupiter is the ultimate act of divine power, here the transformation becomes an act of consumption, reversible, fragile, temporary. The inflatable object — symbol of serial production, mass tourism, the continental ‘pop’ rhetoric — substitutes mythical 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, prisoner of its own productive myth and of the illusion of infinite expansion.

The scene remains suspended between the grotesque and the sublime: the cupids keep shooting arrows, but they strike a PVC simulacrum; the princess maintains her elegant gesture, but her mount is a toy, a commercial fetish of 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 polished, inflatable, transparent surface: the thin skin of contemporary Europe, fragile and constantly at risk of deflating.

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“Art is not about representing new things, but representing them with novelty”

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 artworks with techniques of contemporary digital art. With his neo-urban classical style, he combines tradition and modernity, bringing the protagonists of original artworks into contemporary social and artistic environments.

Recent Exhibitions

FACE 2 FACE
March 5th
Laundry Studios
2 Warburton Rd, London E8 3RT
UK

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

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 information 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