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Slasky, Made In Europe, Giclée on Hahnemühle 350 g paper, edition limited, 2025, 60 × 43 cm, hand-signed, excellent condition, Italy, Baroque style with a Cultura pop depiction.
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Made in Europe (Ratto d'Europa)
• Artist: Slasky (Italian, born 1972)
• Original matrix: Francesco Podesti, Il Ratto d'Europa (1852)
• Technique: Digital art / Contemporary graphic processing (Neo-Urban Classic)
In the nineteenth-century academic painting by Francesco Podesti, the Phoenician princess Europe is seduced and abducted by Zeus, who for the occasion metamorphoses into a spotless and majestic bull, a classic symbol of fertilizing strength, divine vigor, and propulsive drive.
In Slasky's destabilizing digital revisitation, the mythological narrative undergoes a drastic and bitter formal downgrading: the noble divine animal disappears, replaced by an inflatable spotted cow, equipped with obvious air valves and a conspicuous udder. This iconographic shift transforms the work into a sharp geopolitical and cultural satire:
The inflatable cow as simulacrum: In these dark and complex historical times, the animal no longer represents the proud and untamed primordial power of the mythic bull that founded a continent. It becomes instead a beach toy, hollow and fragile, a metaphor for a deflated Europe, lacking a spine and reduced to a mere object of serial consumption or a bureaucratic shell.
The invitation to reaction: The figure of Europe, reclining on the back of this postiche structure, retains Podesti's neoclassical austere pose but appears tragically anachronistic. The work visually denounces the state of art and politics today, suggesting a strong conceptual contrast: whereas contemporary Europe passively lets itself be dragged by an artificial market (the cow), it should instead lift its head, rediscovering its identity dignity and the original propositive strength of the bull.
Slasky's pop and urban aesthetics thus act as a short circuit: the stark contrast between the perfection of Italian classicism and the plastic inflatable’s artificature exposes the structural weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and immobility of the old continent.
Giclée on Hahnemühle 350g + certificate of authenticity
« Art is not about representing new things, but about 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 capacity to fuse classical artworks with techniques of contemporary digital art. With his neo-urban classic style, he unites tradition and modernity, bringing the protagonists of the original artworks into contemporary social and artistic environments.
Upcoming exhibition
FACE 2 FACE
March 5th
Laundry Studios
2 Warburton Rd, London E8 3RT
UK
Recent Exhibitions
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 Venice, Italy
ARTLAB
Benjamin Eck Gallery
Munich, Germany
2021
MIA FAIR
The Informationen 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 Informationen 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)
• Artist: Slasky (Italian, born 1972)
• Original matrix: Francesco Podesti, Il Ratto d'Europa (1852)
• Technique: Digital art / Contemporary graphic processing (Neo-Urban Classic)
In the nineteenth-century academic painting by Francesco Podesti, the Phoenician princess Europe is seduced and abducted by Zeus, who for the occasion metamorphoses into a spotless and majestic bull, a classic symbol of fertilizing strength, divine vigor, and propulsive drive.
In Slasky's destabilizing digital revisitation, the mythological narrative undergoes a drastic and bitter formal downgrading: the noble divine animal disappears, replaced by an inflatable spotted cow, equipped with obvious air valves and a conspicuous udder. This iconographic shift transforms the work into a sharp geopolitical and cultural satire:
The inflatable cow as simulacrum: In these dark and complex historical times, the animal no longer represents the proud and untamed primordial power of the mythic bull that founded a continent. It becomes instead a beach toy, hollow and fragile, a metaphor for a deflated Europe, lacking a spine and reduced to a mere object of serial consumption or a bureaucratic shell.
The invitation to reaction: The figure of Europe, reclining on the back of this postiche structure, retains Podesti's neoclassical austere pose but appears tragically anachronistic. The work visually denounces the state of art and politics today, suggesting a strong conceptual contrast: whereas contemporary Europe passively lets itself be dragged by an artificial market (the cow), it should instead lift its head, rediscovering its identity dignity and the original propositive strength of the bull.
Slasky's pop and urban aesthetics thus act as a short circuit: the stark contrast between the perfection of Italian classicism and the plastic inflatable’s artificature exposes the structural weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and immobility of the old continent.
Giclée on Hahnemühle 350g + certificate of authenticity
« Art is not about representing new things, but about 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 capacity to fuse classical artworks with techniques of contemporary digital art. With his neo-urban classic style, he unites tradition and modernity, bringing the protagonists of the original artworks into contemporary social and artistic environments.
Upcoming exhibition
FACE 2 FACE
March 5th
Laundry Studios
2 Warburton Rd, London E8 3RT
UK
Recent Exhibitions
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 Venice, Italy
ARTLAB
Benjamin Eck Gallery
Munich, Germany
2021
MIA FAIR
The Informationen 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 Informationen 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
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Edition
Limited edition
Artist
Slasky
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
Sold with frame
No
Period
2020+
