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H31264 Easy Life Fantasy
After months of living through lock downs and adjusting to life under the socially-distanced regulations of the ‘new normal’, we can all relate to the feeling of wanting to break free. Johnny Romeo captures this sentiment with fiendish delight in his slickly macabre work Easy Fantasy Life. In the painting, the artist re-envisions the members of Queen as a ghoulish assembly of candy-coloured skeletons in a cheeky nod to the classic silhouetted band portrait found on their 1974 album ‘Queen II’, and more famously re-enacted in the a cappella scene of their classic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ video. Brimming with vivacious, neon-hues and a dark comedic bent, Romeo’s morbid take on Queen ironically pulsates with a bright, positive energy that invites us to find solace amidst life’s darkest moments. Even the dead in this instance feel the need to break free from their gloomy existence and experience the thrill of living, a point amusingly made by the artist in the word assemblage ‘Break Free’ and its reference to Queen’s campy 1984 smash hit of the same name. Romeo ingeniously re-calibrates Queen’s ode to freedom into an optimistic slogan yearning for an ‘Outbreak Free’ world beyond the Corona virus. This urgent desire to return to a normal existence unencumbered by the pandemic, despite feeling beyond our grasp at the moment, is wittily delivered in the title Easy Fantasy Life, which draws from the lyrics of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.
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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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Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
124 x 124 cm Framed
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124 x 124 cm Framed
A$8,895 Enquiry OnlyAcrylic and Oil on Canvas
124 x 124 cm Framed
A$8,895 Enquiry OnlyAcrylic and Oil on Canvas
124 x 124 cm Framed
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Pen, Ink and Watercolour on Paper
50 x 45 cm Framed Under Glass / Image Size 33 x 27 cm
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Giclee on Paper
95 x 82 cm Framed Under Glass / Image Size 60 x 50 cm
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Print on Canson Edition Etching Paper
100 x 144 cm Framed Under UV Glass / Image Size 85 x 128 cm
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Print on Canson Edition Etching Paper
75 x 105 cm Framed Under Glass / Image Size 60 x 90 cm
A$3,500 Buy NowHarvey Galleries was founded by the Harvey family in 1994 with an eye to establish a dynamic and inclusive contemporary art space on the North Shore of Sydney. For almost three decades we have expanded our reach to over three gallery locations and an ever expanding stable of the best artists Australia has to offer.
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