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Made in Europe (Ratto d’Europa) – Francesco Podesti / Slasky In the contemporary remake of the famous Ratto d’Europa, Slasky replaces Jupiter’s pristine bull with an inflatable cow with disproportionately large udders and a visible inflation valve. The operation is not merely parodic, but acts as an X-ray of the myth and its distorted persistence 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, the continent’s “pop” rhetoric — replaces 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, a prisoner of its own productive myth and the illusion of infinite expansion. The scene remains suspended between the grotesque and the sublime: the cupids keep firing arrows, but they strike a PVC simulacrum; the princess maintains her elegant gesture, but her mount is a toy, a consumerist fetish of the civilization of consumption. 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. Giclee on Hahnemuhle 350g + certificate of authenticity « 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 works of art classical 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 show FACE 2 FACE March 5th Laundry Studios 2 Warburton Rd, London E8 3RT UK Latest 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 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
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