Through large-format works, Aythamy Armas evidences his incessant search for the vindication of the stroke as the leitmotiv of his artistic work. Stripping the drawing of the canons of traditional representation, Armas creates awareness in the viewer of the relevance of the physical and expressive elements that occur at the time of the execution of the work. He values the physical act of pictorial language: the stroke, the stain, the texture, the light, and the shadow.

A deep personal impulse to do and to build brings the artist an intimate feeling of well-being. It seems magical to do and create, also to observe and connect. This process inspires the notion of seeing creations as a landscape, a place to be and reside. Large formats allow the viewer to experience an immersive feeling. Aythamy’s pieces are a place to inhabit, to feel, to be, to get lost and be found.

“My work focuses on painting, in its possibilities and in the construction of compositions from the values and qualities of paint itself.
I understand painting not only as a medium with which represent reality, but as an end in itself.I see it as an autonomous element that, through its gesturalism, the strokes and the different graphic and aesthetic resources allows us to build artworks to travel through.
A language that does not tries to represent something, but that builds spaces in which to be, endless spaces where to get lost seeing.
I think of the canvas or support as a surface where to work, as a surface where you try to give your best.
To me an artwork as a place to be.
A landscape to visit”

Aythamy Armas