TOM ROY - PORNFOOD
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Description from the seller
PORNFOOD
The sense of pleasurable saturation, as when desire first enters through the eyes. The body becomes a storefront: exaggerated gesture, exposed flesh, a presence that plays with provocation without apologizing. A portrait-archetype of contemporary consumption, where attraction and excess coexist and confuse.
A direct piece with great visual impact, ideal for a contemporary space that does not fear to discomfort or generate conversation.
Description of the work
In PORNFOOD, the painting addresses desire as a visual and cultural phenomenon. The scene, frontal and immediate, places the spectator before a gesture of consumption taken to the limit of the iconic. The expressiveness of the face and the scale of the food transform a daily act into a symbolic image about attraction, abundance and the theatricality of appetite in contemporary culture.
The work plays with the ambiguity between what is appetizing and the excessive, generating a tension where pleasure and saturation intertwine. The pictorial treatment, intense and contrasted, reinforces the emotional dimension and turns the image into a mirror of the current relationship with desire and image.
A vibrant and provocative painting that functions as a focal point in contemporary spaces, inviting reflection and dialogue about consumption, pleasure and visual culture.
This work was a finalist in the Cambrils 2024 Gastronomic Contemporary Art Biennial, a recognition that underscores its relevance within the dialogue between art and contemporary gastronomic culture.
About the artist
Tom Roy (Toni Ramírez) is an artist born in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) in 1976. After a career in the business sector, a decisive life experience led him to devote himself fully to artistic creation, understood as a space of resistance, memory and personal reconstruction.
His work is characterized by a contemporary figurative language focused on the psychological presence of the characters. Through color, texture and energetic brushwork, he explores the tension between vulnerability and strength, between the intimate and the symbolic. His practice dialogues with references of Spanish contemporary painting such as Juan de la Rica, Julio Vaquero or Miquel Barceló.
His work has been valued by professionals in the international field. Elisa Pritzker, Owner and Director of Pritzker Studio & Gallery, and Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager of Galerie Lo Scalo, have highlighted the solidity and singularity of his pictorial proposal within contemporary figuration.
He has exhibited in spaces such as Sala del Cambrer, Centre d’Art Cal Masó and Gran Palas Experience La Pineda, and has participated in international fairs such as World Art Dubai (2025), ART3F Paris (2024) and FIABCN Barcelona (2023). In 2025 he was artist in residence at the Radisson Red Silicon Oasis in Dubai. His work is part of private and institutional collections, including the Port of Tarragona and the Meliá hotels.
Technique and measurements
Oil on canvas
60 × 80 × 3.5 cm
Stretched canvas, ready to hang without frame
PORNFOOD
The sense of pleasurable saturation, as when desire first enters through the eyes. The body becomes a storefront: exaggerated gesture, exposed flesh, a presence that plays with provocation without apologizing. A portrait-archetype of contemporary consumption, where attraction and excess coexist and confuse.
A direct piece with great visual impact, ideal for a contemporary space that does not fear to discomfort or generate conversation.
Description of the work
In PORNFOOD, the painting addresses desire as a visual and cultural phenomenon. The scene, frontal and immediate, places the spectator before a gesture of consumption taken to the limit of the iconic. The expressiveness of the face and the scale of the food transform a daily act into a symbolic image about attraction, abundance and the theatricality of appetite in contemporary culture.
The work plays with the ambiguity between what is appetizing and the excessive, generating a tension where pleasure and saturation intertwine. The pictorial treatment, intense and contrasted, reinforces the emotional dimension and turns the image into a mirror of the current relationship with desire and image.
A vibrant and provocative painting that functions as a focal point in contemporary spaces, inviting reflection and dialogue about consumption, pleasure and visual culture.
This work was a finalist in the Cambrils 2024 Gastronomic Contemporary Art Biennial, a recognition that underscores its relevance within the dialogue between art and contemporary gastronomic culture.
About the artist
Tom Roy (Toni Ramírez) is an artist born in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) in 1976. After a career in the business sector, a decisive life experience led him to devote himself fully to artistic creation, understood as a space of resistance, memory and personal reconstruction.
His work is characterized by a contemporary figurative language focused on the psychological presence of the characters. Through color, texture and energetic brushwork, he explores the tension between vulnerability and strength, between the intimate and the symbolic. His practice dialogues with references of Spanish contemporary painting such as Juan de la Rica, Julio Vaquero or Miquel Barceló.
His work has been valued by professionals in the international field. Elisa Pritzker, Owner and Director of Pritzker Studio & Gallery, and Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager of Galerie Lo Scalo, have highlighted the solidity and singularity of his pictorial proposal within contemporary figuration.
He has exhibited in spaces such as Sala del Cambrer, Centre d’Art Cal Masó and Gran Palas Experience La Pineda, and has participated in international fairs such as World Art Dubai (2025), ART3F Paris (2024) and FIABCN Barcelona (2023). In 2025 he was artist in residence at the Radisson Red Silicon Oasis in Dubai. His work is part of private and institutional collections, including the Port of Tarragona and the Meliá hotels.
Technique and measurements
Oil on canvas
60 × 80 × 3.5 cm
Stretched canvas, ready to hang without frame
Details
Artist
TOM ROY
Edition
Original
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Sold with frame
No
Title of artwork
PORNFOOD
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Signed
Country of origin
Spain
Year
2024
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Beige, Black, Brown, Pink, Red
Height
80 cm
Width
60 cm
Weight
3 kg
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Pop Art
Period
2020+
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