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Embrace your inner beast and find the power to take on the impossible with Johnny Romeo’s explosive Technicolour tribute to the King of Monsters, Giant Beast Odyssey. The painting sees Romeo push his signature Kitsch Pop style to breathtakingly cinematic proportions, depicting Godzilla as a colossal force of nature taking on the fearsome swell of Hokusai’s ‘great wave’. A vibrant, blood red sun rises in the background, bathing these clashing titans in jagged shards of eye-popping, psychedelic colours as it ushers in a new age where giants rule the world. Originally conceived as a metaphor for the horrors of the atomic bomb in post-war Japan, Godzilla and his devastating power is re-envisioned as a life-affirming symbol for the indomitable courage we each possess to overcome life’s challenges. In contrast, the awe-inspiring strength and terrifying vastness of Hokusai’s ‘great wave’ is dwarfed by its titanic Kaiju opponent, implying that there is no wave or challenge too high for us to rise above. Read in this light, Godzilla forces the great wave into submission by unleashing his formidable ‘sea roar’. Romeo ingeniously invites the audience to share in the triumph of Godzilla’s earth-shattering bellow by creating the word assemblage ‘Sea Roar Soar’, which calls on us to fully take charge of our potential and tap into the ‘soaring beast’ within. This sense of fearless confidence is encapsulated in the painting’s epic title Giant Beast Odyssey. A playful nod to both Homer’s classic poem and the 2018 video game ‘Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey’, the title highlights that the power to conquer fear and take on the world is not something we gain overnight, but rather through a heroic journey of self-discovery.
H34598 Giant Beast Odyssey
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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 ‘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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