Armand Warin

A master of colour at the LAUDA FactoryGallery
A unique technique with unusual colour rendering

18.08.2008 - 30.09.2008

Armand Warin was born 1944 in Lyon and studied at the city’s “Ecole des Beaux-Arts” in 1962. Finding it too traditional and academic, he gave up studying art in the same year and set off travelling and working from job to job. After journeying through Northern Europe between 1962 and 1965, he sailed along the coast of India for a number of months, spent two years in Africa from 1965 to 1967 and then travelled for six months through Spain. Throughout these long journeys through foreign lands, Armand Warin encountered a variety of civilisations and their forms of artistic expression, which subsequently set the tone stylistically and thematically in terms of his development. In 1968 he returned to Paris, where he worked as an artist and interior designer. Encouraged by Le Corbusier, he nurtured an abstract, transparent style mainly characterised by round and rounded shapes. Leaving the hectic metropolis of Paris in 1972, he bought an old farmhouse in Brittany and became self-employed. During the eighties, he finally decided to devote all his efforts to painting and went to live in Germany as an artist. Initially he stayed in the Heidelberg region, mainly in the small but artistically progressive town of Sinsheim, before then moving to Kassel in 1987, the year of the Documenta, to meet with museum experts and other artists. Following this period of artistic exchange and “Documenta hustle-and-bustle”, Armand Warin received numerous offers from France, which eventually saw him go back to Paris, where he lived and worked from 1988 to 1990. Later he returned to Germany – Frankfurt/Main to be precise – before then moving back to Sinsheim in 1991. From 1996, during a specifically artistic period, he transferred his focus from motifs to the abstract and also occasionally worked on sculptures. Countless contracted works, numerous exhibitions in prestigious institutes and companies as well as in noted galleries, all characterise the artist’s career. Since 2007, Armand Warin has been living and working in his own gallery in Seckach/Odenwald, just outside Heidelberg. Here he has succeeded in refining his distinctive “painting on aluminium” technique - rendering colour by unusual means in a manner that never fails to fascinate a multitude of people. Expressive, vivid colours with bizarre colour rendering and extraordinary shapes provide the observer with acres of scope for interpretation. The artist will be exhibiting a selection of his newer, unique works from mid-August to the end of September 2008 at the LAUDA FactoryGallery. Art lovers are invited to take a free peek at the “master of colour’s” works during business hours from 8 a.m. until noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday to Thursday, and from 8 a.m. until noon on Friday.

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