Memory Painting

DOB 11/10/1972 born in Macedonia of Turkish parentage, working and living in London since 1992 as an artist, curator and art historianArmando Ara starts every picture with sketches of the human figure. He then distils all of the sketches into one realistic drawing, which serves as the basis for his abstract composition. In the finished picture we witness a perpetual state of metamorphosis. Some art critics have suggested that because Armando needs the body as an infrastructure for his compositions, he is a figurative painter. In actual fact, Armando is a figurative painter of the spiritual dimension as embodied in the timeless form of the nude. Drawing on his Sufi background, Armando has embodied in his art the ancient mystical beliefs in inner spirituality. Armando is part of the Neomodern art movement, which promotes spiritual and aesthetic values in art. Sionce 2000 four years there has been media and TV coverage on Armandos work both as one of the creators of Neomodernism and as a painter. In 2003 Armando began researching a PhD at Sussex University with thesis entitled Dialectical Aesthetics.