Armando

GARLUN

Garlun, whose real name is Armando Garcia Luna, was born in Monterrey, Mexico, when the country was immersed in a growing cultural and intellectual current in Modern Art, which succeeded the European avant-garde movement.

Sensitive to this ideology, nourished by scientific and artistic knowledge, he carried out various activities simultaneously.

On a professional level, the "Doctor Cemento" or "Doctor Cement", as he is known, is widely known and recognised in the cement and concrete industry for his various discoveries and patents in this speciality.

His talent and creativity, we could even say his passion for the arts in extenso, have been the driving force in his permanent search for beauty and understanding of the human universe. When he began his studies in the Plastic Arts at the end of the 1960s, he established himself in various fields such as painting and fashion design. He also managed one of the most important television companies in Mexico.

His scientific approach, his spiritual approach pushed him to search, to risk with success; to imagine, create and concretise; to search and find; to finally introduce us, in a world of pictorial representation going from the total absence of colour, to a fusional rainbow of nuances, until reaching the ultimate purity of each one of them.

Moreover, Eduardo Jiménez, Doctor of Art Therapy, describes his work as a "challenge to the spectator... He plunges us into a world without rules, [...] in an explosion of colours and expressions....

Starting from a microscopic point of view of the raw material, which he knows well, using the millimetre precision of the elements, juxtaposing points (without being picky), lines, the almost imperceptible use to the eye of sheets in successive layers, he constructs and immerses us in the crystalline world of his reality. ...] In the end, the reliefs shape forms, the forms create tales, these tales tell us stories, these everyday stories, [his] and [ours], [imbued] with passion, intensity, strength of will, [which leads us] to chaos or peace".