Displaying mythological tableaux by creating exquisite black wooden sculptural boxes in which a scene, composed of different elements, can be seen behind a glass and each box presents itself as an unusual “theatre of the unconscious”, the Canadian artist, Mimi Parent, is acclaimed as one of the most vibrant and provocative force of Surrealism in the decades after the second world war.

Synthesizing Surrealism and the sensuous color and painterliness of the School of Paris with his own highly personal abstract vocabulary, the Armenian-American painter, Arshile Gorky, is celebrated as the last of the great Surrealist painters and one of the first Abstract Expressionists.

Famous for creating beauty out of personal tragedy, Gorky was born Vosdanig Adoian, on April 15, 1904, in the village of Khorkom, near lake Van, in an Armenian province on the eastern border of Ottoman Turkey.