From the late 1950s Armando played a prominent role in various avant garde movements. As an artist he was in- volved in the Nulgroep, as a poet in Gard Sivik and De Nieuwe Stijl, and as a journalist he worked for the Haag- se Post. In these groups Armando developed artworks, poems and stories which he felt corresponded better to a time characterized by industrialization, increasing welfare and mass consumerism. Armando demonstrated the at- tractive aspects of modern life, with an open attitude: “Not moralizing, not parodying, not being ironical, not in- terpreting. Intensifcation by means of the isolation or an- nexation of fragments from reality”. In this way, it was possible to create work that was cool, balanced and im- personal in every feld. The exhibition focused on Armando in the 1960s. During this period, he wished to emphasize the beauty of the modern age, as an artist, poet and journalist. The beauty of a wall of car tires, the poetry of conversations in the street, the glow of stories about banal subjects or sub- jects considered to be insignifcant. Download text as pdf