Yousuke Kawashima 川嶋 陽介 was born in Japan in 1978. While he was still attending High School, he realized his first exhibition.
Surrealism | Contemporary art
Surrealism, movement in visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II. The Surrealists sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced by psychoanalysis, the Surrealists believed the rational mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighing it down with taboos. The word ‘surrealist’ (suggesting ‘beyond reality’) was coined by the French avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire in the preface to a play performed in 1917.
Heidi Taillefer was born in 1970, and lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. She attended weekly art classes as a child at the La Palette art school in Beaconsfield, Quebec, focusing on watercolour and various types of mediums.
As soon as you speak with painter Sebastian Wandl, one of the top photorealistic artists of Germany it is instantly obvious that he is an optimistic free spirit. When he starts to talk about his artistic evolution it becomes evident that his artistic path is shaped by a good portion of luck and a whole lot of hard work.
Katerina Teresidi (born 1989), grown up in Russia, Greece, Switzerland and Austria, graduated from Art University Linz, Austria. The paintings of Katharina Teresidi have been presented in austrian and international exhibitions, the works remain in private and public collections.
Maja Borowicz, an artist passionate about industrial design and futuristic architecture. She creates a realistic and surreal images for paintings, movies and illustrations. The world of Maja Borowicz on the one hand is firmly rooted in reality and from the other she is opening the event exceeding experience. In this way, the paintings are saturated with existential symbolism of magical realism involving the innermost and the most profound experiences of human existence.
Katarzyna Kociomyk graduated with Honors from one of the most prestigious Academies of Fine Art in Poland. Mrs. Kociomyk’s paintings are in private collections in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
Georgy Kurasov was born in 1958 in the USSR, in what was then Leningrad. He still lives and works in the same place, but now the country is Russia and the city is called St Petersburg. Without any effort on his part whatsoever, Georgy seems to have emigrated from one surreal country to another.
Aum Kaewalin is an artist living and working in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She studied at the Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna.
Hannah Faith Yata was born on March 17, 1989 in Douglasville, Georgia, United States. She grew up with a deep love of nature and animals passed down by the beautiful surroundings in the country and her mother.