About

Armando Mariño (b. 1968) has lived in both France, The Netherlands, and the USA, making him a truly international artist. However, it is his childhood in Cuba which had the most profound impact on his paintings which utilize the power of both figurative and abstract elements, and which are filled with symbolic meanings centering on the self, on art and on the right to be free.

The history of Cuba is more tumultuous that those of most other countries. Together with Hispaniola and Bahamas, Cuba was one of the first islands on which Christopher Columbus set foot in 1492. Over the course of the …