Armando Alemdar Ara is an artist and art historian of Turkish origin

Turks in the Republic of Macedonia

Turks in the Republic of Macedonia, also known as Macedonian Turks, are the ethnic Turks who constitute the third largest ethnic group in the Republic of Macedonia. According to the 2002 census, there were 77,959 Turks living in the country, forming a minority of some 4% of the population. The...

, living and working in London

London

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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Life

In 2000, Armando gained his diploma in Master of Art History from Kingston University

Kingston University

Kingston University is a public research university located in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, United Kingdom. It was originally founded in 1899 as Kingston Technical Institute, a polytechnic, and became a university in 1992....

, and in 2001 he co-founded with fellow artist Andre Durand

Andre Durand

André Durand is a painter working in the European Hermetic tradition. He is influenced by artists such as Rubens, Titian, Michelangelo and Velázquez....

, Neomodernism

Neomodernism

Neomodernism is a term that has at times been used to describe a philosophical position based on modernism but addressing the critique of modernism by postmodernism...

, a new philosophy of art and art movement. Armando's visual work reflects influences from his reading of Hermetic

Hermeticism

Hermeticism or the Western Hermetic Tradition is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based primarily upon the pseudepigraphical writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus...

 and Sufi

Sufism

Sufism or ' is defined by its adherents as the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a '...

 writings, philosophy and theology.

Armando Alemdar Ara lives and works in London, UK. His work is represented by GX Gallery, London, Grahams Fine Art, London, Cheyenne Fine Art, London, and the National Centre of Culture, Macedonia.
Armando Alemdar is an art teacher at Alperton Community School in Wembley, Alperton.

His paintings reveal deeply spiritual aspects of life and existence. Working in the Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

tradition of painting with glazes, Armando incorporates a myriad of transparent layers of paint that both veil and reveal the essence of human form, distiling and abstracting each of his colourful images, and thus depicting a mystical imagery of inner movement.

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