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Dark Room 12 - Luis Royo

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Title:	Dark Room 12 - Luis Royo
Artist:	Luis Royo (Painter)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	162
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Added to Site:	3/2/2025
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Luis Royo - Dark Room 12 (2018)

11.02� x 14.96� / 28 x 38 cm
Graphite, Watercolor and Acrylic with Airbrush on Handmade Paper.

Work made for the collection Dark Room.
Published in the book �Projects (1): Goddesses� (2019), p58 by Norma editions

Signed and with Certificate of Authenticity

A lot of sensuality and eroticism in this beautiful detailed illustration made by a Grand Master in this field.

Luis Royo & Romulo Royo:

The beauty of the female nude has been a source of inspiration and admiration throughout the history of art, capturing the essence of the human form in its purest and most vulnerable state. The expression of the female body has been a filia, a taboo, a provocation and a vindication. However, with our artists it takes on a dreamlike sense, a dreamlike journey from anatomy to volumes and movements.

Let�s carry on dreaming in dark rooms with the most perverse and hidden, leaving as unknown which is the genre we got on our minds or below our hips.

Laberinto Gris:

Very few collections like these we can prepare during the year. Doing it has been an arduous job and a luxury. DARK ROOM is the most hidden provocative and secret of the artists we represent.

Already in 1999, they (Luis Royo & Romulo Royo) did their first work in collaboration in PROHIBITED, the collection of erotic-themed books that was an international success that has been reissued over the years. Another of the most recognized collaborations came with the project of the great fresco of the Medvedev in Moscow in 2006, also with an erotic and allegorical theme to the themes of classical art within this genre, picking up this work in his book DOME. That's why Laberinto Gris has considered that this exhibition, approaching both authors the erotic theme, was totally indispensable.

In the debate discussion of preparation to offer you the selection, we expose some of the artists� words and reasons:

Outside the current rhetoric that invades us at this time (although except for obvious inequalities) and in front of many of those speeches, that covered with a veneer of "rights" do nothing but hide a new puritanism growing day by day (perhaps a deception to ensure that we are less free), including in these claims a patina of asexuality or rather of disapproval towards any manifestation of a sexual nature. We gathered all these works in a dark selection, we wanted to put the weight on what has been present since the beginning of the human being, from the remote matriarchy (here we have the sculptures of the "goddesses of fertility" found scattered around the world) and to lean clearly towards that primordial feminine figure that is not an invention of our century. That need for equality between humans does not have to hide eroticism or sex, something so obvious, today seems to be in danger self-censorship and hooking off pictures of museums.

Let�s carry on dreaming in dark rooms with the most perverse and hidden, leaving as unknown which is the genre we got on our minds or below our hips.

Elle � Jaya Saxena:

Women have no problem objectifying the bodies they desire. But every woman knows what it's like to be that object, to be reduced to a flat vehicle for someone else's fantasies instead of a person with sexual agency. We don't have an even playing field, and given the opportunity to express desire, whether for one's own body or someone else's, women perhaps have an easier time remembering what it's like to be the object.
Maybe someday we'll get to a point where all depictions of sexuality are this complex, with bodies on display for arousal or introspection, but not for ownership.

Museum of Sex (New York):

From simple titillation to hardcore representations, erotic have a long history of incorporating scandal, fantasy, provocation and fun in sex.
In recent years, the erotic theme has grown into a potent, dynamic and, sometimes, subversive form of art, worthy of academic investigation. Sexual encounters, acts and characters that cannot exist on reality and are constrained only by the illustrator�s imagination. For some, even the creation of erotic work is an experience sexually charged, particularly if the sexual fantasy is in some way inaccessible on reality. As Tom from Finland famously said, �If I don�t have an erection when I�m doing a drawing, I know it�s no good.� Whether mass-produced or created as individual works of art, erotic images are a reflection of society and unabashed sexual fantasy, where every sexual act ever performed or imagined exists.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 3/3/2025

Luis Royo embraces the erotic in all forms and really excels illustrating the dark fantasy elements of seduction!

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