I had the honour of being invited to participate in the International exhibition of Surrealist Art, titled Las llaves del deseo (The Keys of Desire), that opened on March 11, 2916 at the Museo Municipal de Cartago in Costa Rica. Artists, musicians and writers from 19 countries are included in this major exhibition.
The seven works in the show will become part of the permanent collection of the Fondacion CameleonArt.
Although I do not consider myself a surrealist artist, my work contains many elements related to this style. Surrealism has pervaded our culture and our everyday language to the extent that it is difficult to consider it separate from other art forms. It is the way of expressing imagination that shapes dreams. For visual artists it becomes the poetry of form and colour, the projection of the inner vision made real.
Following my participation in a four Vancouver artists show, West Coast Surreal: a Canadian Perspective, at the Fundacion Museo Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, I continued to receive invitations to other exhibitions of Surrealist art, in Coinmbra, Portugal and Santiago de Chile. My works are now in the collections of the Fundacion Museo Eugenio Granell and the Museo Nacional de Chile. I discovered that the world of Surrealist artists was a warm and friendly one, where both artists and curators supported and helped one another and showed interest and appreciation for the art, unlike the usual cold, unfriendly art world of most museums and curators of contemporary art.