"Penelope Rosemont once said, “in a sense, all outsider art is surrealist art…” And this was the singular inspiration for this collection. Here, Surrealists are teamed with stalwarts of Fluxus, renegades that have no compass, as well as Outsiders who have rejected the false map of convention. “Be capable of the marvelous” was our call. [...]
Mariusze Figle, a surrealist emergence from subcarpathian Poland. You can check out their blog here. mushrooms-man on the bank of great water separating two black lands at the moment of vision
http://www.fresh-dirt.us/ Fresh Dirt, the deep South’s newest artistic collective researching practicing Surrealism in the 21st Century, will host an exhibition & creative soire’ in May! The collective is an offspring of previous incarnations, it’s member’s having originated activities as early as 1974 in Tuscaloosa, infamously known as Raudelunas, out of which birthed the first Birmingham [...]
It's worth announcing two new French books for 2018 (and that will shortly be available in Québec): To start, the first ever reprint of surrealist poet Pierre Peuchmaurd's Plus Vivants Que Jamais, (with an introduction by Joël Gayraud) published when he was 20 years old shortly after May '68: "Just between two cobblestones passed from one hand to [...]
It's very exciting to see that the catalogue for the Archaeology of Hope, an international surrealist game, exhibition and ritual held on the Isle of Wight in 2017, is now available from Head Louse Press. This gorgeous catalogue contains many strange and shocking wonders from the surrealist future. "The Archaeology of Hope was launched on the [...]
and some unexplained occurrences of aquatic faunas By Mattias Forshage Head Louse Press & Peculiar Mormyrid Press Print Copy | Appendix Volume: Dream Stories Print Copy | Free Ebook MATTIAS FORSHAGE The semi-aquatic and internationally suspect entity who dared speak out in favour of notorious bathyscopy, and who writes of: Savage carnivores that prowl [...]
Parisian surrealist Michel Zimbacca's first solo exhibition will be taking place soon in Paris: LIBRE MOISEAU Paintings, collages, drawings, objects October 14th-28th 2017 Vernissage on the 14th, from 6:00-10:00 p.m. Closing Event on the 18th, 8:00 p.m. (poetry readings and films) L’USINE 102 BOULEVARD DE LA VILLETTE 75019 PARIS Tel : 01 42 00 40 [...]
In case anybody hasn't seen this gem yet, the full film is available here.
Crazy Happy June 29 - July 30 Painted Scrolls by Rikki Ducornet & Sculpture by Margie McDonald Northwind Gallery, Port Townsend, WA, 2017. In my book of essays, The Deep Zoo, I wonder: What if, just as the traces of our earliest forms persist encoded in our genes, a golden age persists deep within the [...]
