Your cart is empty

Johnny Romeo, Disco Jet, December 2025, acrylic & oil on canvas 101cm x 101cm (40" x 40")

When it comes to artists and songs that define the 90s, few come close to the cultural impact of Madonna’s 1990 smash hit ‘Vogue’. Disco Jet is an ecstatic visual celebration of the groundbreaking Pop star that channels the Pop spirit of Andy Warhol and the hedonistic pulse of the 1990s disco revival, all wrought in Romeo’s signature Kitsch Pop style. Echoing Warhol's famous ‘Double Elvis’ (1963) and ‘Two Marilyns’ (1962), the painting depicts Madonna as a double optical illusion ‘striking a pose’ with an alluring air of charisma and confidence. The Divine Miss M’s hands extend into the image at dramatic angles, guiding our gaze and creating a frame within a frame that evokes the expressive gestures of ‘voguing’, a queer form of dance born in the flamboyant ballrooms of New York that hit the mainstream through Madonna’s single. Bursting with an irrepressible energy, the painting’s title Disco Jet captures the exhilarating thrill of barnstorming voguers blazing through the discotheque as they slice through the air with expressive purpose and supersonic precision. With her debonair, almost regal pose, Romeo nods to Madonna’s status as true Pop royalty through the word assemblage ‘Diva Pop’, which he astutely morphs into ‘Diva Pose’ to highlight the song’s dominance on the dancefloor. Vivacious and larger-than-life, Disco Jet is a Technicolour tribute to a Pop visionary who defied the norms of her era, and influenced the worlds of modelling, music and dance for generations to come.