Travesía Cuatro Madrid unveils new solo show by Romeo Gómez López alongside global group exhibition

Tender is the day the demons go away is Romeo Gómez López’s (Mexico City, 1991) first solo exhibition in Spain and his second project with Travesía Cuatro. On this occasion, his works move in a different direction from the biting irony and dystopian atmosphere that typically characterize his practice; instead, they explore the possibility of articulating scenes with a certain tenderness and reconciliation — as a last refuge for coping with the present moment, with its indecent corruption and systematic campaigns of disappearance, war, and extermination. Throughout his career, Romeo Gómez López has drawn on a range of references and phenomena from mass media culture — global celebrities, Hollywood movie characters, toys, and action figures — in order to subvert their original meaning. In his work, these elements or figures are turned upside down, so to speak, in order to articulate unconventional or critical narratives that address various interests or themes, rangin