Armando

Armando was not just a sculptor, but also a painter, violinist, actor, journalist, film-, television- and theatre-maker. As poet and writer, he composed an enormous oeuvre and was often distinguished by literary prices. He became part of the Dutch Informal Group (1958) which included artists like Kees van Bohemen and Jan Schoonhoven; this later evolved into the Dutch Zero-movement. Their work gave rise to a new revolutionary vision on well-known objects. In this spirit, Armando created ‘The Black Water’, which was a basin made of black plastic filled with a couple of centimetres of water, despite the minimal contents of the basin there existed a great depth-illusion. As poet and artist Armando was involved with ‘The New Style’ and ‘Gard Sivik’. In 1998 the Armando Museum was opened in the Elleboog Church in Amersfoort. Armando passed away July first 2018 in Potsdam.