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Johnny Romeo

Spark Fusion

Name: Spark Fusion - Harvey Galleries
SKU: H36020
Price: 8895.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

SKU: H36020

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

124 x 124 cm Framed

A$8,895

Get ready to escape the kiss of death in a blaze of glory with Spark Fusion, Johnny Romeo’s incendiary collision of melancholic Impressionism and the Marvel comic book universe. In the painting, Romeo ingeniously transforms Van Gogh’s memento mori study ‘Skeleton with Burning Cigarette’ (1886) into the fiery Marvel anti-hero Ghostrider, a supernatural vigilante whose skull blazes with Technicolor hellfire. Van Gogh’s once-static study of mortality here is given an electrifying shot of adrenaline as Ghostrider’s flaming skull scorches across the canvas with infernal fury, threatening to burst through the pictorial plane while maintaining just enough cool to keep his loosely hanging cigarette in check. The title of the work humorously plays with the symbol of the cigarette, implying that the spark fusion used to light it has exploded into a trail of flames that has engulfed the skull. Driven by vengeance in the original Marvel comics, Romeo’s riotous rendition of Ghostrider has discovered a new lease on life through the thrill of the open skies, a symbol of decay whose rebellious spirit and need for speed has driven him to literally emerge from the dark side of death. The flame-fuelled skull is truly in his element as he pursues the ultimate ‘Dope Ride’, roaring across the heavens like a chain-smoking comet cheating death and defying gravity with the indomitable swagger of a rock’n’roll road dog. Despite his newly discovered freedom, the darker colour palette of the painting suggests a sombre emotional undercurrent to the skull’s triumphant escape from mortality as he realises he can never fully outrun the shadows of his past.

H36020 Spark Fusion, 2025

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About Johnny Romeo

Johnny Romeo is an internationally acclaimed Australian painter. Considered Australia’s leading Pop artist, Romeo is spearheading the global Neo-Expressionist Pop movement with his electrifying collision of rock’n’roll swagger, comic book aesthetics and street art. Described by GQ Magazine Australia as ‘part punk, part pop’, Romeo’s Kitsch Pop works are explosive sugar rushes of Technicolour imagery and urban grittiness that are turning heads worldwide.