International Surrealism Now at the Mafra Palace in February, Portugal

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Surrealist Santiago Ribeiro founded Palácio de Mafra, in the School of Weapons to Surrealism Now art show  2024

With a tribute to Isabel Meireles, one of the most important surrealists in Portugal
Mafra, Portugal, EU, 02/11/2023 – International Surrealism Now will open to the public in the next few days 5th to 17th of February of 2024 at Palàcio de Mafra in the School of Weapons in Portugal with 125 artists, 52nd countries.
After having passed through Lisbon, Porto, Setubal, Amadora, Lousã, Aveiro, Coimbra, Conimbriga Museum, and the Medieval Castle of Ega’s palace.
The movement Surrealism Now started in 2010 organized by Bissaya Barreto Foundation.
This groundbreaking project is presented by Santiago Ribeiro, a Portuguese surrealist painter, dedicated to promoting Surrealism of the 21st century, through exhibitions presented over the last 14 years in various parts of the world.
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by Surrealist Santiago Ribeiro  
Portuguese surrealist artist Santiago Ribeiro is the mentor and promoter of the world’s largest surrealist exhibition of the 21st century, International Surrealism Now, his work has been exhibited globally, as well as in Berlin, Moscow, New York, Exhibition in Dallas, Los Angeles, Mississippi, Indiana, Denver, Warsaw, Saint Nantes, Paris, London, Vienna, Beijing, Florence, Madrid, Granada, Barcelona, Lisbon, Belgrade, Montenegro, Romania, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Minsk, New Delhi, Jihlava (Czech Republic) and Caltagirone in Sicily and several cities in Portugal. Times Square in New York, USA has often reported his exhibition information, and collectors have collected his works in many countries.
The Mafra National Palace, also known as Mafra Convent, is a Portuguese national monument in Mafra, Portugal.
It has been classified as a National Monument since 1907 and inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 2019, It is part of the cultural site designated as the Royal Building of Mafra, composed of the palace, which includes the basilica (with a set of 6 organs and 2 carillons) and the library, a convent and educational establishments, Siege Garden and Tapada.
Palácio de Mafra / Mafra Palace, Terreiro D. João V, Mafra, Portugal, +351 261 817 550 
 
PS: below are the names of participant artists: 

Achraf BaznaniMorocco Adrian BoureanuRomania Agim MetaAlbania-Spain Aissa MammasseAlgeria Alessio SerpettiItaly Alvaro MejiasVenezuela / Ana NeamuRomania Ana Pilar Morales, Spain Andrew BainesAustralia / Asier Guerrero Rico (Dio), Spain / Axel BlotevogelGermany / Brigid MarlinUK Bien BanezPhilippines / Can EmedTurkey / Carlos SablónCuba Carlota da Silva, Portugal Cătălin PrecupRomania Chuang Chih Hui, Taiwan / Cristiano Mangovo, Angola / Cristian TownsendAustralia / Conor WaltonIreland / Cynthia TomChina USA Daila LupoItaly Dan NeamuRomania / Daniel ChiriacRomania / Daniel Hanequand, France / Canada / Daniele GoriItaly Delphine CencigFrance Domen LoSlovenia / Edgar Invoker, Russia Efrat CybulkiewiczVenezuela / Egill EibsenIceland / Erik HeyninckBelgium / Ettore Aldo Del VigoItaly / Farhad JafariIran / France GarridoUSA Francisco UrbanoPortugal Gabriele EsauGermany / Genesis CabreraUSA / Graça Bordalo PinheiroPortugal / Graszka PaulskaPoland Gromyko SemperPhilippines / Gyuri LohmullerRomania / Hector PinedaMexico / Hector ToroColombia / Henrietta KozicaSweden / Hugues GilletFrance / Isabel MeyrellesPortugal / Iwasaki NagiJapan / James SkeltonUK Jay GarfinkleUSA / Jay Paul VonkofflerAmerican / Argentine / Jimah StNigeria / Joanna Budzyńska-Sycz, Poland João DuartePortugal Keith WigdorUSA / Leo WijnhovenNetherlands / Leo PlawGermany Liba WSFrance / Lubomír ŠtíchaRepublic Czech Ludgero RoloPortugal / Lv ShangChina Maarten VetNetherlands / Maciej HoffmanPoland / Magi CalhounUSA Marnie PittsUK Maria AristovaRussia Mario DevcicCroatia / Martina HoffmanGermany Mathias BöhmGermany Mehriban EfendiAzerbaijan / Mitchell PlutoUSA Naiker RomanCuba / Spain / Nazareno StanislauBrazil Nikolina PetolasCroatia / Octavian FlorescuCanada Ofelia HutulRomania / Oleg KorolevRussia / Olesya NovikRussia / Olga SpiegelUSA Otto RappAustria / Paula RosaPortugal Paulo CunhaCanada / Pavlina BoroshovaSwitzerland-Germany / Pedro Diaz CartesChile Penny GolledgeUK Peter MC LANEFrance / Philippe PelletierFrance Radhika MenonIndia / Richard ShannonUSA Roch Fautch, USA Rodica Miller, USA / Ruben CukierArgentine / Israeli Rudolf BoeleeNew Zealand / Russbelt Guerra, Peru / Sabina NoreAustria / Sampo KaikkonenFinland / Santiago RibeiroPortugal Sarah Zambiasi, Australia / Serge Sunne, Latvia Sergey TyukanovRussia / Shahla RosaUSA Shoji TanakaJapan / Shan ZhulanChina / Shia Weltenmenge, Germany Sio ShisioIndonesia Slavko KrunicSerbia / Sônia Menna BarretoBrazil Steve SmithUSA / Stuart GriggsUK Svetlana KislyachenkoUkraine / Svetlana RatovaRussia / Tatomir PitariuUSA / Tersanszki CorneliaRomania / Tim RoosenBelgium Victor LagesPortugal / Vu Huyen ThuongVietnam / Yamal DinMorocco / Spain / Yang Sumin, Taiwan / Yuliya Patotskaya, Belarus Yuri TsvetaevRussia / Zoltan DucsaiHungary / Zoran VelimanovicSerbia.

52nd countries: Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Angola, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, India.

Santiago Ribeiro

Santiago Ribeiro

Editor-in-chief creator and promoter of international Surrealism Now art exhibition. Santiago Ribeiro was born in Coimbra. He shared his childhood and youth between the rural and religious environment of the village of Condeixa, where he lived, and the academic, secular, "avan-garde", revolutionary University City of Coimbra, where he was studying. He attended Avelar Brotero Comprehensive School in Coimbra, where he finished his Technical Course of Arts and Crafts. In 2006 he joined a Higher Education School, also in Coimbra. He organized and participated in numerous individual and collective art exhibitions. His work is represented in several private collections. He is also represented in the Collection of Contemporary Art of the National Museum Machado de Castro and in the Bissaya Barreto Foundation in Coimbra, Portugal, European Union.