Ancestor's room, oil painting by Armand Campi exudes a mystical intensity.
In his layered paintings that are often characterized by a worked-through skin, he searches for the essence of human existence and explores the forces that act on the human spirit from without and within.
Canvases that are sometimes light and exuberant and then again bright and theatrical in tone. The oeuvre as a whole bears witness to the lived-in and dynamic artistry of an independent spirit. It is not in mediocrity but in extremes that this oeuvre finds its value."
Armand Campi has expressed himself in a range of styles. From surrealism in the beginning to abstract expressionism in the 1980s to his current style that recalls the atmosphere of old masters such as Turner, Goya and Moreau. Campi goes his unique way in which painting for him is.. Read more…