Charles Avery will be participating in the group exhibition, Dessins contemporains surréalistes de Rotterdam- Collections du musée Boijmans Van Beuningen (Contemporary surreal drawing from Rotterdam. Collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen).

The museum has over 70,000 prints and drawings in its collection. In recent decades the museum has focused on contemporary drawings, with the accent on work with a surrealistic mentality. All these drawings are rooted in some form of automatic imagination. They feature an almost outsider -like concentration, and strive to create their own world view.

The present exhibition includes some seventy works by such born artists as Oscar de Las Flores (Mexico), Peter Feiler (Germany), Ewoud van Rijn (Holland), Charles Avery (England), Krijn de Koning (Holland), Charlie Roberts (USA), Ronald Cornelissen (Holland), Elmar Trenkwalder (Austria), Paul van der Eerden (Holland), Trenton Doyle Hancock (USA), Chris Hipkiss (England), KinkeKooi (Holland), Robert McNally (England), Paul Noble (England), ManfreDuSchu (Austria), Hans de Wit (Holland), Jason Fox (USA). This collection demonstrates that the art of drawing is a lively, contemporary, and appealing discipline.

Dessins contemporains surréalistes de Rotterdam- Collections du musée Boijmans Van Beuningen
1 March – 13 May 2012
Institut Neerlandais
121 rue de Lille
75007 Paris