Saturno Buttò 1957 | Italian surrealist painter

I was born in 1957 in Portogruaro, Venice. I am a painter and I create portraits. I always went for some amusement through painting. Still I uphold my flayr for portraits, for I enjoy so much creating and looking at them, then. I love to mix things…Sacred and profane for example. It is quite normal for me to put purely erotic situations together with examples of devotional observance, like praying figures, misycs or martyrs. I always enjoyed exploring the potential of mind and body, with a special interest in the “at the most” situations: figures able to shock while saving their power of seduction, in a kind of mix which makes you share, even at home, the performance of deep-rooted taboos. I owe a lot to my school education, especially to my High school of Arts and, then, to the Fine Arts Academy in Venice. Saturno is my Christian name. In the ancient septenarius, i. e. the set of the visible planets including the sun, Saturn’s symbol is depicted by the cross of the elements dominating a moon crescent. In my works I almost always put his monogram aside the signature.

Momix Ballet | Gli scatti suggestivi di Max Pucciariello e Pedro Arnay

Conosciuta nel mondo intero per le sue opere di eccezionale inventiva e bellezza, Momix è una compagnia di ballerini, diretta dall'americano Moses Pendleton. Sin dalla fondazione ha acquisito grande notorietà per la sua capacità di evocare un mondo di immagini surreali utilizzando il corpo, costumi, attrezzi, luci e giochi d’ombra. Nato dall'ingegno del coreografo Moses Pendleton, questo progetto unisce un gruppo di ballerini-illusionisti che attraverso il loro corpo, giochi di luce e scenografie spettacolari sono in grado di evocare mondi surreali e fantastici. Il nome Momix nasce dalla contrazione di “Moses Mix”, che è il titolo di un assolo ideato da Pendleton per i giochi olimpici del 1980. Nello stesso anno Pendleton fonderà la compagnia appunto chiamata Momix, prendendo ispirazione da Vivaldi e dal suo ciclo delle Quattro Stagioni. Basato su tecniche della modern dance americana, i ballerini si muovono a volte da soli, a volte in gruppo o in coppia, saltano come portati dall'aria, strisciano a terra, si muovono come se fossero un tutt'uno con le scenografie.

Andrej Gorenkov 1969 | Russian surrealist painter

E' nato nel 1969. Impegnato nella pittura dal 1990. Dal 1992-1998 ha partecipato in oltre 20 grandi mostre nelle seguenti città: Zhigulevsk, Neftegorsk, Togliatti, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhniy Novgorod, Cheboksary, Parigi, Amburgo e Mosca.

John Pitre 1942 | American Surrealist painter

Born in 1942 and educated in the fine arts at the prestigious Art Students League in New York City, John Pitre evolved to become a master of fantasy and surrealism. Pitre has been a significant influence in the art world for over thirty years, and carries the distinction of being one of the most widely published artists in modern history. One of John Pitre's best known paintings is A New Dawn, a 1965 work which shows a modern human reduced to the status of a caveman in the midst of smoldering urban ruins. This painting, in the weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks more than thirty five years later, was seen by some as a foreshadowing of what came to be known as the Ground Zero of those events. In 2004, the owner of the original painting, which was valued in 1997 at $1.7 million, offered A New Dawn in trade for a £1 million house on the London real estate market.

Timur Tsaku 1971 | Surrealist and Hyperrealist painter

Tsaku was born inTashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1991, Tsaku returned to his homeland and became an Instructor of painting and drawing at the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater. In 2001 he returned to Israel to start a new line of works taking its motif in the Old Testament. Tsaku's paintings were acquired for the permanent collections of the Israel Museum and the President's Residence, both in Jerusalem.

Ricardo Fernandez Ortega 1971 | Mexican surrealist painter

Ricardo Fernandez Ortega was born in 1971 in Durango, Mexico. The surreal paintings by Ortega invites us to travel to another time, his style reminds us of the greatest classical masters, however, his painting is modern.

Philippe Guillerm | France | Wooden art

Philippe Guillerm began his professional life in Paris, France the city where he was born in 1959 and lived for twenty years. Through the years, he has traveled around the world with his wife Jacqueline and their two daughters Monique and Swanne on his forty-eight foot sailboat. Guillerm's music-inspired sculptures are whimsical and curvaceous string instruments, he uses the theme as a way of expressing human nature and needs, you see an instrument, he sees an attitude. In addition to the musical theme, many of his sculptures depict sea scenes and animals. His other works include functional art like "Sculptural-speakers", finely carved furniture, large dimensional wall murals and monumental outdoor pieces. He works with exotic and local wood such as Mahogany, aspen, Jacaranda, poplar, wengue, purple heart, and walnut, using the wood's color like a painter uses paint. His works reflect dreams, illusions, and reality and invite the viewer to stop and reflect about human nature.

Antoine Jossé 1970 | French surrealist sculptor and painter

Antoine Jossé making paintings and sculptures. Art is for me a prolongation of life; artists are the witnesses of their time which they translate through their sensibility and practice.

Yuri Laptev 1962 | Russian Surrealist painter

Born in 1962 in Petropavlovsk. He graduated from the Crimean Art College. Samokisha 1986. The reporting of the Crimean Association of Artists Exhibition 1987-1989. Participation in exhibitions and artistic associations of the Crimea and Simferopol 1989-1998. Participation in "Reality and mysticism" (Werkstattgallerie, Heidelberg) 1993. Art interactive action "item T" in collaboration with the Roman Kuhar, Simferopol-Kiev 1995-2000. Participation in international exhibition "Odessa-Art" gallery under the patronage of "CEP", Simferopol 1998. Participation in the "Children of Perestroika". Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey, Zalman Gallery, New York 1998. Participation in the exhibition "Contemporary Russian Art", Odessa State Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Russian Art in Jersey, 1999.

Max Ernst 1891-1976 | Pioneer of the Dada art and Surrealism

Max Ernst was a german painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism. Ernst was born in Brühl, near Cologne, the third of nine children of a middle-class Catholic family. His father Philipp Ernst was a teacher of the deaf and dumb and an amateur painter. A devout Christian and a strict disciplinarian, he inspired in his son a penchant for defying authority, while his interest in painting and sketching in nature influenced Max Ernst to take up painting himself. In 1909 Ernst enrolled in the University of Bonn, studying philosophy, art history, literature, psychology and psychiatry. He visited asylums and became fascinated with the art of the mentally ill patients; he also started painting this year, producing sketches in the garden of the Brühl castle and portraits of his sister and himself. In 1911 Ernst befriended August Macke and joined his Die Rheinischen Expressionisten group of artists, deciding to become an artist. In 1912 he visited the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where works by Pablo Picasso and post-Impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin profoundly influenced his approach to art. His own work was exhibited the same year together with that of the Das Junge Rheinland group, at Galerie Feldman in Cologne, and then in several group exhibitions in 1913.

Alfio Presotto 1940 | Italian surrealist painter

Alfio Presotto e’ nato in provincia di Venezia. Frequenta i corsi dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze nel 1957-58 e nel 1960 aderisce al gruppo del Realismo a Milano. Tra le mostre personali e collettive ricordiamo nel 1969 l’esposizione U.S.A.L.B.A. a Milano, la mostra al Salotto Rossini di Pesaro nel 1970 e la partecipazione al Salon Art Libre di Parigi nel 1974. Nel 1975 espone all’Art Gallery di S.Francisco e dal 1989-1992 a Bergamo. Nel 2001-2002 è presente all’Expoart di Montichiari e a Contemporanea Arte Forlì. Nel 2000-2002 espone alla Galleria D’Ambrosio di Brescia, nel 2002 partecipa alla mostra “Il corpo e lo sguardo“ al Palazzo Ducale di Revere, Mantova. Nel 2003 partecipa alla XII°edizione di Vicenza Arte e orlì Arte; nel 2004 è presente alla XII° Mostra Arsmedia di Bergamo. Nel 2006 partecipa a Vicenza Arte. Nel 2007 è presenta alla Mostra “Per…Bacco“ Palazzo Antinori a Firenze. Vive e Lavora a Tirano. La sua opera pittorica è segnalata nel volume “I giudizi di Sgarbi“ edito nel 2005 dall’Editoriale G. Mondadori.

Man Ray 1890-1976 | Surrealist/Cubist painter, sculturist and photographer

Emmanuel Rudnitzky, pseudonimo Man Ray, è stato un pittore, fotografo e regista statunitense, esponente del Dadaismo. Nasce a Filadelfia nel 1890, ma è a New York che cresce e completa gli studi: termina la scuola superiore ma rifiuta una borsa di studio in architettura per dedicarsi all’arte. A New York lavora nel 1908 come disegnatore e grafico. Nel 1912 inizia a firmare le sue opere con lo pseudonimo Man Ray che significa uomo raggio. Acquista la sua prima macchina fotografica nel 1914, per fotografare le sue opere d’arte. Nel 1915 il collezionista Walter Arensberg lo presenta a Marcel Duchamp, di cui diverrà grande amico. Nel 1919 dipinge le sue prime aerografie, immagini prodotte con un’aeropenna, uno strumento di ritocco di uso comune per un grafico disegnatore. A New York, con Marcel Duchamp formò il ramo americano del movimento Dada che era iniziato in Europa come un rifiuto radicale dell'arte tradizionale. Dopo alcuni tentativi senza successo e soprattutto dopo la pubblicazione di un unico numero di New York Dada nel 1920, Man Ray affermò che "il Dada non può vivere a New York". Nel 1920 Marcel Duchamp torna a Parigi. Man Ray, che in precedenza aveva rinunciato a trasferirsi in Francia a causa della grande guerra, lo segue. A Parigi Duchamp gli presenta gli artisti più influenti di Francia, fra cui anche André Breton Il successo Parigino di Man Ray è dovuto alla sua abilità come fotografo, soprattutto di ritrattista. Il suo studio fotografico è frequentato dalla Parigi bene, alla ricerca di un ritratto diverso dall’usuale.

Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 | Cubist, Dadaist, Fauvist and Surrealist painter

Marcel Duchamp the painter and mixed media artist, was associated with Cubism, Dadaism, Fauvism and Surrealism, though he avoided any alliances. Duchamp’s work is characterized by its humor, the variety and unconventionality of its media, and its incessant probing of the boundaries of art. His legacy includes the insight that art can be about ideas instead of worldly things, a revolutionary notion that would resonate with later generations of artists.
Marcel Duchamp was a french artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period.
Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much by writing, but through subversive actions such as dubbing a urinal art and naming it Fountain. He produced relatively few artworks, while moving quickly through the avant-garde circles of his time. The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Mike Worrall 1942 | Surrealist and absurdist english painter

Born 1942 in Matlock Derbyshire, UK Mike Worrall is an english painter and designer, inspired by historical themes. I have been painting since the early 1960's and am almost entirely self taught. I still retain the basic technique and style developed in these early years. I am committed to exploring the subconscious and I like Paul Delvaux and Max Ernst amongst others. I've worked in the feature film industry as an Ideas Artist. I was told by Roman Polanski that a painting of mine he had, gave him the idea of making the film Macbeth. He based the second scene on the painting. I have works in the collections of Victor Lownes, Alan Price of the Animals, Roman Polanski, Nicholas Roeg, Vincent Ward, Alex Proyas and many others.

Edward Pustovoitov 1964 | Russian fantasy and surrealist painter

Jorge Ignacio Nazabal 1962 | Surrealist cuban painter

I was born in Habana City, Cuba in november 27 of 1962. I was Graduated of Biologist in the Havana University in 1985 and worked 12 years as biologist in a cytogenetic Lab. In 1996 I began to study in the San Alejandro Academy of Arts of Havana and I was graduated in 2000. I left my work of Biologist in 1997. I have made several personal and collective exhibitions in Cuba and in others Countries too Mexico, Spain and Italy.

Michael Cheval 1966 | Surrealist and absurdist painter

Michael Cheval is the world's leading contemporary artist, specializing in absurdist paintings, drawings and portraits. In his definition, absurdity is an inverted side or reality, a reverse side of logic. It does not emerge from the dreams of surrealists, or the work of subconsciousness. It is a game of imagination, where all ties are carefully chosen to construct a literary plot. Any one of Cheval's paintings is a map of his journey into illusion. His work is often metaphorical and requires a sharp eye to decipher the often hidden allusions.

Jean-Paul Avisse 1948 | French surrealist painter

Avisse is a rare and unique artistic genius of unquestionable depth, scope and power. A self taught master of incredible details and universal concepts. Taking over eight weeks to complete each original intricate painting. First time viewers are further amazed to learn that Mr. Avisse creates each original painting by hand, using no computers, photographs or air-brushed techniques. Instead he relies on a much more time honored tradition, his hard learned skills and talents.
Mr. Avisse's images offer us a glimpse into a window of his mind, showing us worlds that we have each perhaps only imagined in fleeting dreams and realities. He vibrantly creates those images with added clarity and details that go far beyond most viewers imaginations and concepts. His art speaks to a specific moment captured in time, his images relating to many of humanities greater issues. His ability to place the viewer into our relationship with the universe, time, space and the environment are constant themes we see repeated in his art. Mr. Avisse adds, "I am very focused on including many important issues into my art. Humanities place in the universe and our struggle with our environment are issues that will be with us for generations. When you view my art and perhaps see a woman's eyes closed you are then witnessing her own dreams and hopes. I try to give you an insight into personal aspirations. We must respect the environment and better try to comprehend our place in the vast universe". He is often asked who his models are but Mr. Avisse creates the people in his art only from his own vivid imagination The amount of details in his paintings constantly amazes even the most knowledgeable and discerning viewers.

Andrius Kovelinas | Lithuania | Surrealist painter

Andrius Kovelinas has been living in Ireland for almost 6 years now. His extraordinary style and imagination has been on show at The Green Gallery shortly after he set foot on these shores. For many years Andrius had travelled throughout Europe producing his masterly works everywhere he wen “I travelled a lot in Europe through Countries such as Sweden, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Spain. My sister lives in New York I go there two or three times a year and organise small private exhibition for collectors”. Before I moved to Ireland I was living In Northern France in the City of St. Michel. Among traces of Kovelinas still visible there is a large fresco for the supermarket chain L’eclerc. He returned there for a short time in 2007 to take up a similar commission. At the beginning of 2008 he had his most recent solo exhibition in Austria, in the beautiful city Gmunden. In summer time every years, traditionally, he participates in the international Art Camp in France. This year was excellent for Andrius. After two weeks 5 days travelling thru the French Normandy where he was inspired with new ideas for his pictures. The final exhibition was in Sorbay.

André Martins De Barros | Surrealist french painter

"I grew up in Pau, a small town located in the foothills of the Pyrenees. At a very early age I discovered my passion and talent for drawing and painting. Today I paint in mystudio located in the renowned Montmartre district of Paris, just a few blocks from the Moulin Rouge. The conflict of man fighting his fellow man, the role of nature, and the struggle for existence are all constant themes in my imaginative paintings: from simple joys and beauty to troubling scenes of apocalyptic proportions. Yet, in each piece, a sense of optimism and even whimsy is readily apparent. In recent years there has been increased interest in this style, and the ‘Fantastic Realism’ genre has become extremely popular: vibrant images that elevate reality to the realm of the fantastic".