PARIS SURREALIST HERITAGE BISSAYA BARRETO FOUNDATION DOROTHY S GALLERY
Posted by: Santiago Ribeiro
PARIS SURREALIST HERITAGE BISSAYA BARRETO FOUNDATION DOROTHY S GALLERY
SANTIAGO RIBEIRO CURATOR OF ART EXHIBITION in PARIS (BASTILLE) Dorothy s Gallery - SURREALIST HERITAGE 2012
Surrealist exhibition With BISSAYA BARRETO FOUNDATION support, with the artists: ANDREI NEKRASOV; ANNE ETHUIN; BENJAMIN MARQUES; DANIEL HANEQUAND; EVGENY DENISOV; GREGORY POTOSKY; ISABEL MEYRELLES; LIBA WARING; PAULA ROSA; SANTIAGO RIBEIRO; SERGE SUNNE; SHAHLA ROSA; VICTOR LAGES; VU HUYEN THUONG; YURI SHPAKOVSKY and YURI TSVETAEV.
France, Portugal, Russia, United States, Czech Republic, Vietnam, Latvia
Surrealism, which was born after the first wold war, is characterized by its opposition to all social conventions, moral and logic. It is a movement immersed in dreams, instinct, desire, rebellion, and the liberty of life. It is also perhaps the movement most tied to imagination, a movement fully alive in the artistic and literary worlds. In Portugal, it is perhaps the link which ties these two worlds together. Prof. Perfecto Cuadrado said so aptly in one of his conferences: “The history of Surrealism, meaning anthologies, studies, catalogues (and exhibits) devoted to the so called International surrealism, needs to be divulged – the price, sometimes, in a simplified fight against other forms of simplification, when it is not against a total silence due to sectarianism, or ignorance whether French, Portuguese or International.” Surrealism through words, painting and sculpture continues, like life to be: insistent, concrete, daily and real. This exhibition in Paris, the birthplace of the movement, is proof that "International Surrealism" is still alive.
Maria Fernanda Pinto
Paris, 06/01/2012