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Beat Drop Heavy
SKU: H35310
Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
A$12,085
In the shadowy glimmer of the Gotham night, anything is possible as enemies become lovers and darkness gives way to light in Johnny Romeo’s cinematic ode to doomed romance, Beat Drop Heavy. Wrought in rich shadows and seductively neon-drenched hues, the painting depicts two former enemies, Batman and Catwoman, giving in to their love as they hold each other beneath the glow of a pastel moon. Batman gazes intimately into the eyes of his feline femme fatale, both enraptured by the searing clarity of their feelings and the sullen realisation that this moment is fleeting. Romeo heightens this duality by splitting the moon into two colours that illuminate the perfect symmetry between positive and negative, heroism and villainy, perfectly harmonising them in a climax of emotional surrender. Batman and Catwoman, once rivals, have a history of doomed romance that has evolved into a deep, enduring connection. Over the decades, these gothic antiheroes have experienced the highest peaks and lowest depths of love and have together realised that their ‘Supreme Dream’ of being together forever is dead. Like the moon, however, their fraught journey from adversaries to lovers is steeped in symmetry, a mirror of their push-and-pull dynamic as a ‘Supreme Team’ rising above their tumultuous history in a moment of ephemeral bliss. The title, Beat Drop Heavy, recalls the constant build of techno music as it peaks towards an earthshattering, cathartic beat drop. In this same spirit, Catwoman and Batman’s unguarded embrace becomes an instant of pure release, where tension, conflict, and longing all dissolve into a single, timeless act.
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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.
Johnny Romeo ‘WHATEVER!’ Exhibition 2024
Johnny Romeo ‘FUTURE DAYS’ Exhibition 2023
Johnny Romeo ‘LANDED!’ Exhibition 2022
Affordable Art Fair Sydney 2022
Johnny Romeo ‘Choose Life’ Seaforth Exhibition 2022
Grand Seaforth Reopening Exhibition 2022
Johnny Romeo ‘The Sunny Side of the Moon’ Mosman Exhibition 2020
Johnny Romeo Pop-Up Exhibition Melbourne 2020
Johnny Romeo ‘To The Extreme’ Mosman Exhibition 2019
Johnny Romeo ‘The Last Days of Disco’ Mosman Exhibition 2018
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