Armando. Das skulpturale Werk 1988-2017

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The oeuvre of Dutch artist Armando includes 173 bronze sculptures created between 1988 and 2017. Melanie Lange analyses the form, content, materiality and structure of the sculptural works for the first time, classifying the bronzes within the artists oeuvre as a whole. Six key motifs - The Ladder, The Wheel, The Leaf, Head, Form, and Fragment - embody aesthetic concepts and a credo of responsible art, which employs visual means to counteract forgetting and obscuration. Armandos sculptures extend the contemporary historical dimension of painting to include archaic topics of early human development. In view of current developments in autocracy, violence and war, the artists worldview as reflected in his sculptures takes on immense relevance. - First systematic analysis of Armandos sculptural oeuvre Aesthetic study of Armandos artistic oeuvre in the context of contemporary history Art in the field of tension between analytical reflection and mimetic empathy

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Melanie Lange, Museum Folkwang, Essen

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