Artwork Description
Roya HPM Hand Embellished Archival Print by Mateo Limited Edition Hand Painted Multiple on 290gsm Moab Entrada Fine Art Paper Pop Artist Modern Artwork.
2025 Signed & Numbered HPM Hand Embellished Print Limited Edition of 10 HPM Uniques Artwork Size 17x24 Archival Pigment Fine Art
Roya HPM by Mateo: Sacred Identity Rendered Through Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork
Roya HPM is a 2025 hand-embellished archival pigment print by French artist Mateo, produced in a limited edition of only 10 hand-painted multiples. Each edition within this exclusive HPM series is individually enhanced, transforming the fine art print into a one-of-a-kind mixed media statement. Printed on 290gsm Moab Entrada Fine Art Paper, the artwork measures 17x24 inches and carries the physical presence of a richly layered and deeply symbolic Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork. Mateo’s combination of sacred geometry, cultural portraiture, and lavish visual language is fully realized in this exquisite piece.
Symbolism, Ornamentation, and Personal Identity
In Roya, the central portrait emerges from a tapestry of intricately detailed motifs, gold embellishments, and sacred ornamental patterns that frame and fill the subject’s face and body. The woman’s features are composed with sharp photorealistic clarity, yet Mateo overlays her identity with a reverent layering of design—a nod to heritage, divinity, and beauty. The use of golden motifs radiating from the subject’s cheeks echoes Islamic and Persian architectural elements, honoring spiritual aesthetics while grounding the figure in cultural specificity. The artwork suggests not just a face, but a monument to memory, ancestry, and pride. Mateo’s masterful stencil work and embellishment with hand-painted elements makes each HPM in the edition a singular interpretation of the larger concept. No two prints are the same, as the artist deliberately injects variations in pattern, gilded detail, and color saturation. The result is an artwork that feels both universally symbolic and personally devotional.
Luxury Techniques with Urban Grit
The tactile brilliance of Roya HPM stems from its hybrid creation process—archival pigment printing ensures sharp fidelity to Mateo’s original design, while the Moab Entrada paper provides a lush, heavyweight surface for further hand embellishment. Each embellishment is a conscious act of layering history and meaning, blending graffiti-adjacent aerosol energy with fine art methodologies. Mateo’s work straddles public and private space, from murals to gallery walls, and this piece captures the tension between those two domains. This HPM print reflects Mateo’s ability to turn the language of street art into sacred visual storytelling. Gold-painted filigree evokes spiritual icons while celebrating global cultural traditions often excluded from western fine art narratives. Roya becomes not only a portrait but a tribute—a face carrying generations of stories, both visible and veiled.
Street Pop Art that Honors Culture and Memory
Mateo’s Roya HPM is a rare convergence of craft, message, and material. It speaks to the essence of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork: the elevation of marginalized voices through visual spectacle and emotional resonance. The work feels regal and revolutionary, sacred and defiant. In Mateo’s hands, portraiture becomes a canvas for cultural restoration, not through nostalgia but through transformation. Roya is not merely seen—it is experienced, celebrated, and remembered.
