Written by Aldo Vela

Visual artist Armando Williams presents Camouflage, a solo exhibition dedicated to nature and its epidermis.

There is an unbreakable relationship with nature in Armando Williams' work. For anyone who stops in front of his work, oblivious to any preamble or disquisition, there remains the certainty of a commitment that goes beyond strokes and forms, as it involves native and visceral elements, the epicurean and the instinctive, fury and its envelope. The artist says, while reviewing Marea baja, Los ojos de la cerradura - some of the pieces that will be part of his Camouflage exhibition - that what it is about is the subject and its environment, the one who disguises himself and becomes the immensity, mimicry and totality. There is therefore a lot of disguise and some deception, a synthesis of life itself, survival on the surface of the skin. Although he is asked about the militaristic designs of some of his canvases, the artist points out that his intention is to delve into the original referent and not into the confrontation that animates living species. The beginning of every end, amidst the foliage, the mist and the thicket. Armando says that it summons elements of transition. And he is right, the lines persist, the nonchalant, allegorical strokes that made up his previous stage, and that are now wrapped in other contours and approach other spaces. There are the lines and also the sinuosity of the plants, of the perpetual moss of the jungle. The layers and the weave, the configuration of the surface, also persist. The compositions of the otorongo and the turtle stand out notably, pigment and design placed between figuration and abstraction. Figures that from the canvas or the silkscreen, maintain the expression of nature, the cover of the wild.

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Somos Magazine, July 10, 2004