HAPPENINGS
Royo, "Recital" August 14 - 16
EC Gallery Beverly Hills • RSVP to
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Royo’s models are not just a component of his work, they are essential. The extraordinary relationship he has with these women, his muses, is one of profound trust and intimacy. One feels their warmth and the inseparable bonds when looking at his work. Everything he does is out of reverence to the woman, to the female form.
These young women are his wonderful friends and collaborators; Royo describes them as “magic” and they feel honored to be memorialized by the great artist. He is hypnotized by women and feels a responsibility to portray them with the grace and elegance they reveal. Throughout his legendary career, Royo has chosen to work in themes, usually in anticipation of a museum showing. Other collections have included: Sagittas, an homage to an imaginary Utopian ideal, Harem, an honorific to women that incorporates a brighter palette and materials evoking a very private world, Ingravidos, a contemporary collection depicting his models in positions as if without gravity, and Equus, which explores the strength and majesty of horses, again with some of the compositions including his human models.
For his collection Recital, a retrospective of sorts painted specifically for Exclusive Collections, he has revisited several of his most acclaimed themes. Royo is known for painting many of his works so that the woman’s eyes are averted. He has explained that the reason for this is an attempt not to capture the aesthetic of a woman, but to capture the “spirit of woman.” When the eyes are open you are looking into that person’s soul, into a moment of tender vulnerability. Uniquely, he wishes to capture that mood without the open eyes — through how the clothes drape the woman’s body, how they make gestures, through their essences. This collection shows his respect for the special one-on-one relationship he has with each of his muses, and we as viewers get a very intimate view of that connection.
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Royo's retrospective, Recital, was painted with Exclusive Collections and their collectors in mind. He created a larger body of work, and included a variety of other subjects than previously described. He says,
“Although I am known as a ‘figurative’ painter, I think of myself as a painter! I paint also non-figurative works, landscapes, seascapes, boats and I have even painted horses!” Each day, he paints what moves him and we are privileged that he has chosen to share with us. — Greg Bloch, Triad Art Group
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