Biography:

Armando Bayraktari was born of Turkish parents in 1972 in Skopye, the capital of Macedonia. His father, Mehdi Bayraktari was a theatre actor impassioned by Shakespeare, Hungarian gypsy music and fishing. Armando grew in a bohemian milieu animated by theatrical cris des scandal that his father produced and directed, often assuming the main role. Bayraktari attended 2nd August School of Art, Skopye for three years receiving a classical, academic education which included the study of icon painting (under Angele Nedelkovski). Alexandar Ristevski and Pero Georgievski -Pljum taught Bayraktari drawing, academic drawing from casts and the live model and M.Gazanfer decorative arts - Chinese to Byzantine design - mural painting, calligraphy and history of art. For Bayraktari the most influential teacher was the Macedonian artist Vasko Tashkovski, a quasi-surrealist whose complex paintings and large scale pencil drawings made an indelible impression on the student. For the young Bayraktari art had to offer answers, not merely ask questions and Tashkovski seemed to have some answers, which attracted the student to his mentor's untypical surrealistic style.

Exhibition :

Group Exhibitions:

'Art Share' Los Angeles,California 1999
'Art's Content, The Public andElitism' Stanley Picker Gallery Kingston University U.K 2000
'Spirit and Matter' Terra Gallery London 2000

Single Exhibitions:

Bercley Gallery in Thomas Town, Ireland 1993
'Energy Fields' Da Vinci Gallery, London 1993-5
'Metaphysics of Sex' Art Encounter Gallery, Las Vegas, USA 1997
'Metaphysics of Existence' Centre of Culture, Skopye, Macedonia 1997
'Energy Forms' Art for All Gallery,
Santa Ana, California 1999