Armando Andrade Tudela

Whilst making numerous road trips – along Panamericana Sur, Panamericana Norte and Lima Metropolitana – Armando Andrade Tudela has documented the mural-scaled designs with which Peruvian truck owners frequently customise the exterior of their vehicles. These designs, representing a distinctive everyday vernacular, are configured out of such related modernist forms as 1950’s – 1970’s graphic design, ‘il brutalismo’ and traditional highway signs. Titling this ethnographic project CAMION, Andrade has collated the resulting documentary images into an artist’s book and a two-screen slide projection.

CAMION is part of Andrades’s wider typographical mission. He has also documented the urban vernacular architecture of Lima, and the variable international forms of the roundabout traffic system.

His other work includes paintings (created under the auspices of an imagined art movement – ‘Tropical Abstraction’), an ongoing body of drawings, free-form architectural maquettes, and plans for Constructivist-like mobile platforms for re-figuring the act of viewing landscapes.

Armando Andrade Tudela (b.1975, Lima, Perú). Studied at Universidad Católica, Lima and The Royal College of Art, London. He lives and works between Maastricht, London and Lima. Andrade is a founder member of the artist’s run collective and space Espacio La Culpable (The Guilty One). He is currently participating in a two-year research fellowship at Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. CAMION will be his first solo show and first publication.

CAMION. 116pp with 62pp colour reproductions. Designed by APOGS, printed by NofoPrint. Published by Counter Gallery & Koenig Books London. Special edition of 15 signed by the artist each with a unique drawing.