The artist Santiago Ribeiro will participate in the ART FESTIVAL in AFRICA from August 21 to 29 in Cairo.
It is the Portuguese artist’s first time in Cairo and Africa. The present painting will be Industrial of Apples.
José Manuel 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 artistic exhibitions. His work is represented in several private collections. He is also described in the Collection of Contemporary Art of the National Museum Machado de Castro and the Bissaya Barreto Foundation in Coimbra, Portugal, European Union.
Santiago is the promoter of the international project “Surrealism Now,” which began in 2010 in Coimbra, Portugal, organized by the Bissaya Barreto Foundation.
Santiago Ribeiro has been dedicated to promoting the Surrealism of the 21st century in several parts of the world, including Paris, London, Berlin, Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, Mississippi, Southern Indiana, Belgrade, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Nantes, Monte Negro, Minsk, Moscow, St Petersburg in Russia, Warsaw, Florence, Vienna, Japan, Taiwan, Podgorica, Montenegro, Timisoara in Romania, Jihlava (Czech Republic), Caltagirone in Sicily, Brazil, New Delhi, many cities in Portugal and now in Cairo, Egypt.
Information:
ART FESTIVAL in AFRICA <info@artfestival.africa>
