Armando Romero 

on Transcendental Wit

There is a hidden little fact written in the secret "Artchemy Codex on How to Make Serious Art Fun", buried somewhere under one of the Yacata pyramids of Tzitzuntzan. It mentions that Hermes was there on several occasions at the traditional Graffiti Residencies hosted by the local goggle-eyed god Tlaloc. Hermes known also as the Trickster, god of transitions and boundaries, traveler between the worlds, bored out of his wits by his classical upbringing was planning one of his stunts on his fellow Olympians. His Temporeal visas mandatory for any time travelling trip show a series of surprising outings with Tlaloc and a third party, an art teacher from Michoacan. They crashed an anniversary celebration of a certain Hyeronimus near s'-Herthogenbosch in The Netherlands. Also, noted was a disturbance at a Spanish Royal Court painting sitting in Madrid in the company of a certain Francisco, A police report of a break in at the  Warner Bros. Studios in Los Angeles listed one black duck missing a shooting, and a summons from NYPD was issued for vandalism in Brooklyn, New York. A little out of the way the same three suspects were recorded by a Star Wars long range scanner soliciting favours from a rather unsavory character named Vader or something at a facility on the planet Naboo. The transcripts of  their visits, also mandatory in time travelling conjecture include some other unexpected names like Garfield, Pokemon, Mighty Mouse just to name a few. Getting a little more serious It is also mentionable their stop over at Gottingen for an intensive class of Transcendental Phenomenology that might have disbanded the party. On each occasion the were seen carrying rolled canvases in spite of strict "No Luggage" regulation. Currently, and we have no idea what that really means when one time-travels The GTA (for Global Time-travelling Agency has them under investigation. The charge is - interfering with their designated timeline.

The naughty trio split after the the German escapade And the GTA agent are working 24/7 to trace the culprits. The main lead were a series of similar graffiti freshly sprayed  on the Moon Pyramid in Teotihuacan, in Plaka on the walls of Acropolis and in Miami on several canvases by a Mexican Artist Armando Romero waiting to be exhibited  at the Gala Kavachnina Gallery. The Graffiti controversy continues to transcend time and one can always guess a trickster hidden behind this manifestation of eclecticism. 

There is no real evidence of Armando Romero being the third party mentioned in the above transcripts. His layering technique may suggest an unusual ease of switching between time periods making him a suspect for GTA prosecution. On the other hand his rich cultural background could justify the fertile cultural grounds revealed in his visual explorations. He is boldly questioning of the long term effects on moral values of radically different cultural juxtapositions. His imagery could stand as trophies of an archeology of the moment where Sin coexists with Irony and his language is made universal through familiar quotations from the History of Art  His references come full circle from line drawings that could have easily been traced by a shaman in a prehistorical cave to explosive calligraphy of graffiti on the walls in a modern metropolis. However, there is a strange synchronicity between the methods described in the Artchemy Codex and the reductionist methods in Romero's neoeclectic compositions where his visual quotations have the tendency to let his imagery floating in pure wit. It is notable that his canvases could also be a serious lessons of how to make art fun thus opening the time-traveling Agency to some degree of leniency.

Sasha Meret

October 2013, New York  , http://kavachnina.com/exhibitions/past/