Artist Santiago Ribeiro the curator of the very successful “Surrealism Now” exhibition in Coimbria, Portugal, in collaboration with Liba Waring Stambollion have organised a quality exhibition in the heart of Paris at Dorothy’s Gallery, the American Center for the Arts. The exhibition brings together artists from diverse countries, such as France, Portugal, Russia, United States, Czech Republic, Vietnam and 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 Exhibiting Artists Andrej Nekrasov, Anne Ethuin, Benjamin Marques, Daniel Hanequand, Evgeny Denisov, Gregory Potosky, Isabel Meyrelles, Liba Waring Stambollion, Paula Rosa, Santiago Ribeiro, Serge Sunne, Shahla Rosa, Victor Lages, Vu Huyen Thuong, Yuri Shpakovsky and Yuri Tsvetaev. originally posted in FANTASTIC VISIONS, February 29th
April 8, 2011 to July 8, 2011
A DOOR BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Une porte entre deux mondes ATELIER Z Centre Culturel Christiane Peugot 62 av. de la Grande Arme 75017 - PARIS February 1st to February 11th 2011 Vernissage: Thursday, February 3rd, 19:00 hrs
Gromyko Semper Exhibition 
Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art
25 Lopez Avenue, Lopez Village, Sucat Paranaque City, Metro Manila 1700 Philippines NEW WORKS - DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS
opening Reception: Saturday, October 23rd, 6 PM The show will run from OCT 23-NOV 23 2010 Info: http://kulay-diwa.com/map of Kulay Diwa Gallery: http://kulay-diwa.com/map -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gronyko Semper is a member of the private Visionary Art Network, his work can be seen on the web at: GROMYKO SEMPER - VISIONARY ART GALLERY *
Conimbriga Monographic Museum - Surrealist Paintings by Santiago Ribeiro

Jon Jaylo's recent appearance in the scene however, is more of a psychological labyrinth than a display of paintings. With each image is a part of a special key that leads to an unknown door of illusions, a place where dreams are real, a place where shrouds and masks dance freely like thoughts inside the mind...a place we call enigma. It's a cerebral act in where the guests are meant to interpret and decode a series of puzzles that eventually leads to an understanding of the artist's innerthinking's and the intricately designed clockwork of dreaming. Each of the pieces are designed to leave out a clue, perhaps breaking down Jaylo's subconscious into small fragments of visual progression, whispering a certain echo of the artist's soul to its viewers. However, the soft sound it breathes is very vague and sometimes deceiving, as a single idea could take on a multitude of forms, like a shapeless virus infecting an already concrete concept, giving out an infinity of questions to the single answer that it brings. This is very intentional according to the artist, because he wants his audience to think. He wants them to break free outside of their own private boxes and engage themselves deeper inside the disintegrating abyss contained inside his works. He wants the paintings to cause a certain condition of unconscious euphoria, taking its viewers afloat from the grounds of logic and reality. Because only in this heightened sense of apprehension can one understand the true nature of his works. It's more of a challenge to his visual spectators, forcing them to take effort in acquiring the answers rather than the usual process of spoon feeding the bits and pieces. Because the true reward of accomplished knowledge rests on the struggle that we have undergone in order to achieve it. And because the artist is very elusive in nature, this exhibition might actually be the only way to absolutely find out how the inner workings of his mind actually run. Jaylo's mirage of riddles are composed of things borrowed from his own memories and dreams--love, inner conflict, religion, death and life are but a few to name. Everything is under the mercy of equilibrium, a rather perfected balance between darkness and light; chaos and harmony. Everything, if viewed as the artist would want it should make sense at the right time and lead to an answer that infinitely leads to a lot more, like two framed mirrors facing each other.
But is this exhibition really enough to unlock the enigma of Jon Jaylo?
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 GREY DAY AT THE FACTORY
Norbert Gladis, a esteemed member of our Visionary Tribe, invites everyone to attend his Exhibition Vernissage on Thursday, June 24th 2010 at 7:00 PM at the Gotischen Haus in Berlin, Breite Straße 32
The Exhibition is scheduled between June 25th and August 21st 2010. Open between the hours of 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM  NORBERT GLADIS EXHIBITION Zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung
Norbert Gladis (Weimar) in Anwesenheit des Künstlers am Donnerstag, dem 24. Juni 2010, um 19 Uhr im Gotischen Haus, Breite Straße 32, 13597 Berlin, laden wir Sie und Ihre Freunde herzlich ein. Carsten-M. Röding , Bezirksstadtrat Andrea Theissen, Museumsleiterin Einführende Worte: Anett Köber Musikalische Umrahmung: Jasmin Hubert (Cello)
Die Anatomie steht Kopf, die Logik schlägt Purzelbäume - in der Ausstellung „imagination" wird der Besucher in eine surreale Welt jenseits des Erfahrbaren entführt. Der Weimarer Norbert Gladis, 1956 in Wittenberg geboren, komponiert seine detailtrunkenen, altmeisterlich gearbeiteten Werke aus naturalistischenVersatzstücken, die er in bizarre Konstellationen zueinander setzt und mit denen er Sehgewohnheiten aufbricht. Der sichtlich von den Bilderwelten Dalis und Magrittes ebenso wie von der Leipziger Schule um Tübke oder Zander geprägte Künstler, der seine Traumszenen in imaginären Landschaften oft durch kryptische Titel weiter verschlüsselt, überschreitet die Grenzen der Realität erfreulich stilsicher und erfindungsreich. Elbe/Elster Rundschau, Andreas Hillger
Dauer: 25.6. - 21.8.2010 Ort: Gotisches Haus, Breite Str. 32, 13597 Berlin geöffnet: Mo-Sa 10 bis 18 Uhr Eintritt: frei
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