2023 has been a year full of important exhibitions, we have initiated many new projects that will see the light in 2024. Many were already able to visit the exhibition Luis Royo & Romulo Royo: Art Generations at the Palazzo Ducale di Lucca, where 20 pieces were debuted belonging to the new series in which the artists are working: Homage to Goya, inspired by the relationships and links that exist between the works of the three artists, and the obsessions and fantasies evident in them.
From these pieces, we selected four to make Special Limited Editions, which we launched exclusively at Lucca Comic&Games 2023 and which many of you have already purchased.
We were thrilled by the great reception and demand for these Special Limited Editions in Lucca, and now we have put them on sale on the Laberinto Gris website, as a thank you for this great year that we have been able to share with all of you, we have edited this special series on the fantastic similarities between Luis Royo and Romulo Royo with the master Goya.
El Aquelarre, Homage to Goya by Romulo Royo, Special Limited Edition based on the homonymous work by Romulo Royo, which attracted all eyes in the hall of the Palazzo Ducale di Lucca, not only for its large format but also for its striking character of intense greens and the delicacy of the figures dressed in Goyaesque headdresses and garments, with an essence of the Romantic or Pre-Raphaelite paintings. This Limited Edition, measuring 61.0 x 84.0 cm / 24.02 x 33.07 in has a print run of 150 laminae, on 340 gms/m2 watercolor paper, numbered and signed by the artist. Throughout his works we find endless threads and connections with a love for fantasy that makes these common links palpable, not only in terms of ideas and themes for their artistic pieces but also in the way they have managed to spread their works throughout the world through their prints and engravings, allowing the general public to enjoy their art.
61 x 84 cm (24.01 x 33.07 in.)
Detail
Encuentro Sensual – Homage to La Maja Desnuda by Goya, is the latest Special Limited Edition, based on the original work of the same name by Luis Royo and Romulo Royo. This fun scene shows us a post-apocalyptic future, reminiscent of previous works from Malefic Time. This time an android stops to admire Francisco de Goya’s La Maja Desnuda, whose canvas is already torn and worn, but whose beauty endures through the ages. Copies up to print run 90/90 are available in size 42 x 60 cm / 16.54 x 23.62 in, numbered and signed by both artists. Even with almost 300 years separating them, in Aragon, born in the same arid, sober, stubborn and extreme climate of northern inland Spain, we find these plastic attractions and constant obsessions in the work of the genius Francisco de Goya as well as in the work of Luis and Romulo Royo. Nothing could be more enlightening than Goya’s lucid phrase: “Fantasy, isolated from reason, only produces impossible monsters. United with it, on the other hand, it is the mother of art and the source of its desires”.
Luis Royo and Romulo Royo
42 x 60 cm (16.54 x 23.62 in.)
All Special Limited Editions are printed in ten inks on 340 gms/m2 watercolor paper with a unique print run and numbered and signed by the author.