Saint John the Apostle is portrayed according to the legend that recounts events which occurred on Patmos when Aristódemus, the High Priest of the Temple of Artemis, made him drink a cup of poison to prove his faith. John survived and Aristódemus and other gentiles became his followers. The parallel to Divine is obvious having survived the nefarious act of eating dog shit and consequently gaining countless worshippers across the pantheon of pop culture.
ROBERTO MAJÁN (Soria, España, 1967)
Roberto Maján is a self-taught artist. He moved to Madrid when he was eighteen and soon began working as an illustrator for various specialised periodicals and publishers, including Expansión, Actualidad Económica, Vogue, El Sol, El País, Health and Beauty, Anaya, Santillana and Edelvives.
In 2006 he founded Artichoque, a publishing house that released several books illustrated by his own pen, such as Kamasutra (Daniel Gil Editorial Design Award finalist in 2006) and Petronia y la reina bigotuda (shortlisted for the 2007 Visual Prize for Best Children’s Book). That year he received the Fundación Progreso y Cultura Prize for his illustrated book El Diablo y yo, which also won an honourable mention at the Lazarillo Awards.
In his personal artistic production, he parades his consummate skill with brushes and watercolours, depicting mostly human figures with a subtle and adept use of colour and creating textures and glazes to produce an oeuvre of stunning beauty and delicacy. His favourite themes expose and explore human passions, particularly love, sex and food.
