SURREALISM NOW - Museu da Cidade de Aveiro Exhibition March 12th to April 30th 2015
SURREALISM NOW
International Surrealism Now é um projeto do pintor surrealista Santiago Ribeiro, que se tem dedicado à promoção do surrealismo do século XXI, através de exposições pelo mundo. A exposição está patente na Antiga Capitania do Porto de Aveiro, até ao dia 30 de abril.
A International Surrealism Now começou em Coimbra em 2010, onde Santiago Ribeiro preparou uma grande exposição organizada pela Fundação Bissaya Barreto. Este evento, já esteve em Conímbriga, no 50.º aniversário do Museu Monográfico de Conímbriga. Fez depois uma itinerância por Paris com o apoio da GAPP – Galeria de Arte Portugal Presente e Liba WS, organizado uma vez mais pela Fundação Bissaya Barreto e Santiago Ribeiro, e por Madrid com o apoio de Yamal Din. Depois disso, foi para Dallas com o apoio da artista surrealista norte americana Shahla Rosa.
Surrealism Now conta neste momento com 64 artistas de 30 países.
A exposição é composta com obras de desenho, pintura, fotografia, arte digital e escultura.
A exposição pode ser visitada de segunda a sexta das 9h30 às 12h30 e das 14h00 às 18h00. Entrada gratuita.
A selection of previous exhibitions are found here, blog category: SURREALISM NOW
The International Surrealism Now is an initiative of the surrealist painter of Coimbra, Santiago Ribeiro, who has devoted much of his time to the promotion of international surrealism of 21st century, which is currently in Portugal and worldwide. Thus has invited artists from all parts of the planet in order to participate in this project and then has received works of artist from various countries. The International Surrealism Now began in 2010 in Coimbra, where Santiago Ribeiro prepared a major exhibition organized by the Bissaya Barreto Foundation. This same event was also already in Conímbriga in Paris with the support of GAPP-Art Gallery Portugal Present and Liba WS, once again organized by the Bissaya Barreto Foundation and Santiago Ribeiro, organized in Moscow by Andrei Nekrasov, in Madrid in support Yamal Din and followed to Setúbal and then to Amadora in great Lisbon in November, and the exhibition continues to grow in participants.
Santiago Ribeiro urged the partnership of artist Victor Lages, who has developed the project Utopia of Fantastic Art, with the purpose of organizing this exhibition in Lisbon region, which has happened in Setúbal and now in the Art Gallery CA in the heart of Lisbon.
The International Surrealism Now account right now with artists from 27 countries: Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, Spreads, USA, Philippines, France, Holland, Indonesia, England, Iran, Iceland, Italy, Mexico , New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and Vietnam.
Among the participating artists are: Isabel Meyrelles born in Matosinhos 1929. She studied sculpture with the Masters Américo Gomes and António Duarte. Settled in Paris in 1950, continuing his studies at the Université René Descartes - Paris V-Sorbonne and l'École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1952 she studied with Master Zadkine Sculpture in the 'Grande-Chaumiere' in Paris. And made part of the surrealist movement, which she believes immortal. The French surrealism (whose engine was André Breton), Isabel watching them all such as with your friend Triston Tzara, but without leaving the Portuguese surrealist movement, living in friendship with António Pedro, O'Neill, Cesariny, Cruzeiro Seixas, among others, and also with Eugénio de Andrade and Natália Correia, as having published several books. Poetry is therefore an integral part of her life.
Isabel Meyrelles was awarded Commander of the Order of Sant´iago da Espada by the President of the Portuguese Republic.
Oleg Korolev, Russian artist of high artistic level, was the contact link to the participation of artists of the "Surrealism Now" in Russia with Andrei Nekrasov from Moscow, President of The International Vanguard-Surrealistic-Esoteric Art. His project "Geysers of Subconsciousness "has been regular since 2007 and dozens of surrealist artists, esoteric, mystical, symbolist, abstractionists vanguards of several countries participating in this project. Andrei Nekrasov is the most outrageous iconic artist and the owner of a gallery "Underground" in Moscow.
By way of tribute, as it has recently died, Daniel Hanequand, is also one of the leading names in international surrealism of 20th and 21st centuries. Born in Paris in 1938, but still young, he moved to Canada. Julie Oakes said in 2007: Daniel Hanequand threw out the old and created a new sociology with the arrogance of a true revolutionary French. He was released from the forms "boring" and established and invented a different race of humanoid and then put the relations of these beings, in a context with its own creation. Otto Rapp is an Austrian artist, surrealist with his "Art of the mystic" and develops the project Visionary Art Gallery.
All other artists in great quality and talent are on the list that follows below.
The Art Gallery CA, is managed by the Centre for Culture and Sport from the Agricultural Credit, association created in the universe of the Agricultural Credit Group in order to promote cultural, physical, intellectual and civic its associates, through cultural, sports and solidarity activities. It features an art gallery, Gallery CA located in the headquarters of the Central Agricultural Credit and conducts various exhibitions and other events throughout the year with artists already conceptualized and launch also new talents
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The opening is scheduled for 17.30 hours of the day April 10, 2013 at the Art Gallery CA, Rua Castilho, 233/233 A - 1099-044 Lisbon (on top of Parque Eduardo VII ).
The exhibition can be visited from Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 19.30 pm daily until May 6, 2013.
Participating artistsAlexander Varganov - Russia Anastasia Fomina - Belarus Andrei Nekrasov - Russia Andrew Baines – Australia Brigid Marlin - England Daila Lupo – Italy Dan Neamu - Romania Daniel Hanequand - Canada Daniele Gori - Italy Edgar Invoker - Russia Egill Eibsen - Iceland Farhad Jafari – Iran Francisco Urbano - Portugal Gromyko Semper - Philippines Héctor Pineda - Mexico Hugues Gillet - France Isabel Meyrelles – Portugal Keith Wigdor – United States Konstantin Shahanov - Russia Leo Plaw - Germany Liba WS - France Luís Fernandes - Portugal Lv Shang – China Maciej Hoffman - Poland Magi Calhoun – United States Maria Aristova – Russia Martina Hoffman - Germany Mehriban Efendi - Azerbaijan Naiker Roman - Spain Nazareno Stanislau - Brazil Octavian Florescu – Romania Oleg korolev – Russia Otto Rapp - Austria Paula Rosa - Portugal Rudolf Boelee – New Zealand Rui Silvares - Portugal Santiago Ribeiro - Portugal Sergey Tyukanov - Rússia Shahla Rosa - United States Shan Zhulan - China Sio Shisio - Indonesia Slavko Krunic - Serbia
Sônia Menna Barreto - Brazil
Steve Smith – United States Svetlana Kislyachenko - Ukraine Ton Haring - Netherlands Victor Lages - Portugal Vu Huyen Thuong - Vietnam Yamal Din - Spain Yuri Tsvetaev - Russia Zoran Velimanovic – Serbia
