About This Project

Armando Tinnirello

«With my masks I go back to the roots of contemporary art, I look at Picasso and Matisse and, like them, I dig in search of a horizon of meanings deeply rooted in the cosmos. So I approach primitivism as an uncorrupted gaze, as a vision that goes beyond reality because it lives in the dimension of thought, so the mask is the whole being. The mask hides as much as it reveals, thus hiding it reveals the human and the mysterious forces of nature that influence it because we are also a mystery.
My shamanic portraits as for Matisse and Picasso are the third dimension of being a man in search of the original. The choice of bold colors is close to Picasso and Matisse once again, realism would remove the sacred force of the images that dress up, instead, with thought and imagination.»