Johnny Romeo: Electric Rodeo

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Fri 17 Sep ’10, 6:00pm–7:30pm	Saving
Sat 18 Sep ’10, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sun 19 Sep ’10, 11:00am–3:00pm	Saving
Tue 21 Sep ’10, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Wed 22 Sep ’10, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
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Fri 24 Sep ’10, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Sat 25 Sep ’10, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sun 26 Sep ’10, 11:00am–3:00pm	Saving
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Wed 29 Sep ’10, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
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Fri 1 Oct ’10, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Sat 2 Oct ’10, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sun 3 Oct ’10, 11:00am–3:00pm	Saving
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Where: Letham Gallery, 35 Jervois Road, Ponsonby Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Admission: Free

Website:

www.lethamgallery.co.nz

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Artist statement:

My images are often recollections of my childhood. Those impressionable things we saw as kids that somehow never quite left us.

I did a lot of my growing up in front of the TV watching superheroes and super-heroines with extraordinary superhuman powers protecting the public against menacing villains. I grew up admiring and idolizing them. I yearned to become a super-hero; I also yearned to have a super-heroine girlfriend!

Consequently, today it’s become really hard to loose my pop mentality whist I’m still living a truly pop reality… We all are!

I’m very interested in themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects and imagery. I love expansive use of colour, bold colours, flat colours and banal or kitschy elements of pop culture. I’m also interested in the use and juxtaposition of words and symbols and the clever use of irony. Products, labelling, brand names, icons and logos all intrigue me immensely. All these things have significance to me because they’re so much a part of our everyday lives.

They are so much a part of my process as they are of my life. I thrive off that energy. I’m never alone whilst I’m in a shopping centre, newsagency, reading a magazine, watching a movie or television show, etc.

My works are about just that… The way we connect with pop culture. As kids, we connected with pop culture and as adults we all are still very much connected.