Synergy by Armando Alemdar Ara

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Perhaps the biggest achievement in Armando's art is that the breakdown of the recognisable human figure is not only achieved by simplification of form, but by visual enrichment and amplification of form and colour which somehow act as guardians against the depletion of content. His style is Modern because the forms are vital, open processes in space. There is swiftness, potency in his flowing abstracted forms and yet, he uses a traditional Renaissance colour palette and painting method.  

In the current body of work Armando has immersed himself into a more figurative style. However, Synergy remains the natural outcome of Armando’s work at this stage of his oeuvre, where the interaction of representational and abstract elements are combined to produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements. Synergy also symbolises Love, where two beings join energies and become something higher, something holy. We can discern a confessional intimacy and emotional turbulence but also resolved abstract elements and assured brushwork that are achieved with swiftness and potency. If the more expressive qualities that we witness from some of his drawings remain in his paintings, this is usually tamed with tender stylisations and veils of traditional Renaissance colour glazing.

Armando is essentially a humanist, because the human figure is his lasting subject. The rich, magical colours act as a bridge to another dimension with forms that contain silent eloquence unburdened by tradition.