Artists from France, Portugal, Russia, United States, Czech Republic, Vietnam and Latvia are as following:

Andrei Nekrasov, Anne Ethuin, Benjamin Marques, Daniel Hanequand, Evgeny Denisov, Gregory Potosky, Isabel Meyrelles, Liba WS, Paula Rosa, Santiago Ribeiro, Serge Sunne, Shahla Rosa, Victor Lages, Vu Huyen Thuong, Yuri Shpakovsky And Yuri Tsvetaev.

During the course of the exhibit, the show will also present French surrealist painter and poet Bernard Ascal who will read poetry from his bestselling book on Aimé Césaire.

This show is testimony to the ever growing International movement of surrealists and visionary artists who express their universe through symbols both personal and sacred.

“Surrealism, which was born after the first world 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 t
hat “International Surrealism” is still alive.”

Maria Fernanda Pinto

Paris, 06/01/2012

Practical Information:

Opening: Friday 30th March 2012, 6pm

Duration: 30th March – 15th April 2012

Opening Hours:

Wednesday to Saturday, 1pm – 7pm

Tuesday and Sunday, 4pm – 7pm

Dorothy’s Gallery

American Center for the Arts

27, rue Keller

Paris, 11e

France

Ph: +33 1 43 57 08 51

www.dorothysgallery.com