Erotica in Art

 

" In art, immorality cannot exist.
Art is always sacred"

                                                     August Rodin

 

 
Luis Royo

 

Born in 1945 in Olalla, a small town in Teruel. Soon afterwards he moved with his family to Zaragoza, where he went to his first school, and where his first memories come from, with drawing already playing a major part. In his first memory, he is sitting in front of the large school windows, and tracing the drawings that his teacher gave him.
His practical side, which he acquired from his family, led him to study Technical Drawing for Construction. He soon discovered that geometric forms did not completely satisfy him.
He began to study painting, decoration and interior design in the Industrial School and the School of Applied Arts, and he combined this with different jobs in interior design and decoration studios in 1970 and 1971.
During this time he also combined his employment activity with painting. Influenced by May ´68 he made large format paintings with social themes, which he exhibited in group shows between 1972 and 1976, followed by a series of individual exhibitions in 1977.
On discovering adult comics with the work of artists such as Enki Bilal and Moebius, in 1978 he began to draw comic strips for different fanzines and he exhibited in the Angouleme Comic Fair in 1980.