BIOGRAPHY
From sobriety to ethereal spell.
Hector Armendariz Martinez is a traditional artist whose academic training brings together both the rigor of classic expression and the magic of symbolic representation. His work combines a sense of the mystic with subtle eroticism. While accepting the finality of the past, this artist gives us a vision of the future.
He was born in the state of Chihuahua and is today one Mexico's top Artist. His work has been exhibited in different parts of the world.
He is not an easily accessible artist… “to be good, one has to be dedicated, to be excellent the artist must live his own creation with heart and soul.” Hector interrupted his architectural studies in order to study art in Europe. While there his work was profoundly influenced by European professors. He became an architect, although he never gave up his ambition to be a fine artist.
He works with purpose and direction exhibiting the process of bringing shape to shapelessness. Among other great artists in his country, the work of Armendariz stands out “…very few are those who in reality work with and develop folk art.” Nevertheless, the variety of styles in his persevering work continues being a silent debate between sublime entities scattered on a canvas and real human beings detailed in natural settings.
Hector’s splendid talent and new vision creates colorful moments in typical flower markets in the ambience of his Mexico-Magico. This artist’s versatility manages to show us through an Indian’s gaze the vast horizon, as well as allow us to have tactile sensations on a polychromatic diversity of fabrics and textures. We can see it in his marvelous painting titled “Vendedoras de Cempasuchil” (“Cempasuchil Vendors”) which depicts daily market scenes with their yellow flowers sold to celebrate “el dia de todos los Santos” (“all Saints Day”).
Some of his other masterpieces like “La Titiritera” (“The Puppeteer”) and “La Pajarera” (“The Bird Seller”) evoke Velazquez’s masterpiece “Las Meninas” patiently awaiting their admiring lover in El Prado museum. Then, suddenly we wake up from that dream surprised to be in front of a painting conceived by a young contemporary spirit displaying an innate artistic strength.
The composition’s elements in the vast and original world of Armendariz in oil paintings, drawings and sculptures integrated to the chiaroscuro effect, bring us to mysterious worlds where the artist instills inner life to forms. This inside experience grips us-subject and object- by means of intriguing veils flying in placid spiritual joy, like those floating tunics in ascending spirals which aspire toward women’s ideals that are in open struggle with their emotions.
Shawled women with carefully shaved heads in offering for their soul’s eternal purification. Bald headed aristocrats turned into humble ‘ladies in waiting’, playing innocent games, weaving and unweaving hopes and dreams, as a mysterious way to remain near God.
Their enigmatic images with pictorial enlightenment, dream-like events and thoughts as well as acts and expressions of past times, appear magically transcending themselves while the viewer is going through specific realities with mystic color and form.
Each artist has a distinguished characteristic and in Hector’s case, it approaches us to those almost divine human beings with strangers and fantastic robes, embroidered in delicate colonial gold filigrees. With their brightness and elegance, they emphasize the fascinating seduction of a mathematical and precise art.
Hector Armendariz Martinez has depicted and continues painting sensual women, perverse, mystic and mysterious, deliberately quietly inquisitive and dual all of them touched and illuminated by celestial light filaments.
With a style that combines a skilled and learned classical technique Hector confronts dreams and figures in an emotive, almost irrational way, moving beyond the answers of silence and philosophy and into the world dreams. Over all, this artist embodies a non-traditional perspective.
Hector explains to us humbly: “I’m still in a development process.”
How long will this artist have to explore and how big is his talent’s magnitude?
Hector Armendariz Martinez is a traditional artist whose academic training brings together both the rigor of classic expression and the magic of symbolic representation. His work combines a sense of the mystic with subtle eroticism. While accepting the finality of the past, this artist gives us a vision of the future.
He was born in the state of Chihuahua and is today one Mexico's top Artist. His work has been exhibited in different parts of the world.
He is not an easily accessible artist… “to be good, one has to be dedicated, to be excellent the artist must live his own creation with heart and soul.” Hector interrupted his architectural studies in order to study art in Europe. While there his work was profoundly influenced by European professors. He became an architect, although he never gave up his ambition to be a fine artist.
He works with purpose and direction exhibiting the process of bringing shape to shapelessness. Among other great artists in his country, the work of Armendariz stands out “…very few are those who in reality work with and develop folk art.” Nevertheless, the variety of styles in his persevering work continues being a silent debate between sublime entities scattered on a canvas and real human beings detailed in natural settings.
Hector’s splendid talent and new vision creates colorful moments in typical flower markets in the ambience of his Mexico-Magico. This artist’s versatility manages to show us through an Indian’s gaze the vast horizon, as well as allow us to have tactile sensations on a polychromatic diversity of fabrics and textures. We can see it in his marvelous painting titled “Vendedoras de Cempasuchil” (“Cempasuchil Vendors”) which depicts daily market scenes with their yellow flowers sold to celebrate “el dia de todos los Santos” (“all Saints Day”).
Some of his other masterpieces like “La Titiritera” (“The Puppeteer”) and “La Pajarera” (“The Bird Seller”) evoke Velazquez’s masterpiece “Las Meninas” patiently awaiting their admiring lover in El Prado museum. Then, suddenly we wake up from that dream surprised to be in front of a painting conceived by a young contemporary spirit displaying an innate artistic strength.
The composition’s elements in the vast and original world of Armendariz in oil paintings, drawings and sculptures integrated to the chiaroscuro effect, bring us to mysterious worlds where the artist instills inner life to forms. This inside experience grips us-subject and object- by means of intriguing veils flying in placid spiritual joy, like those floating tunics in ascending spirals which aspire toward women’s ideals that are in open struggle with their emotions.
Shawled women with carefully shaved heads in offering for their soul’s eternal purification. Bald headed aristocrats turned into humble ‘ladies in waiting’, playing innocent games, weaving and unweaving hopes and dreams, as a mysterious way to remain near God.
Their enigmatic images with pictorial enlightenment, dream-like events and thoughts as well as acts and expressions of past times, appear magically transcending themselves while the viewer is going through specific realities with mystic color and form.
Each artist has a distinguished characteristic and in Hector’s case, it approaches us to those almost divine human beings with strangers and fantastic robes, embroidered in delicate colonial gold filigrees. With their brightness and elegance, they emphasize the fascinating seduction of a mathematical and precise art.
Hector Armendariz Martinez has depicted and continues painting sensual women, perverse, mystic and mysterious, deliberately quietly inquisitive and dual all of them touched and illuminated by celestial light filaments.
With a style that combines a skilled and learned classical technique Hector confronts dreams and figures in an emotive, almost irrational way, moving beyond the answers of silence and philosophy and into the world dreams. Over all, this artist embodies a non-traditional perspective.
Hector explains to us humbly: “I’m still in a development process.”
How long will this artist have to explore and how big is his talent’s magnitude?