Venus

500.00

2020
Watercolor on 300g 100% cotton Hahnemühle paper
Unique piece
50 x 35 cm

Only 1 left in stock

Description

Here’s Simonetta Vespucci dancing in studio 54 surrounded by drugged fags. She realizes that they focus on her with the camera, that she is no longer in the 15th Century, that she is black and much more beautiful than she has ever been, that she feels very free outside her shell in the Ionian Sea, that she is not from the sea, nor from the jungle, but from herself and then carelessly moves her hand, exposing her crotch.

Grace Jones has taken down a Taboo! You Make me Feeeeel Mighty Reeeeal! -Sylvester’s falsetto voice sounds like a liberating mantra-

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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 ExpansiónActualidad EconómicaVogueEl SolEl PaísHealth 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.