Imaginary Journeys, with artists from all over the world bringing their individual contributions of inventive and creative art into the beautiful setting of Ferrara in the Po valley.

The exhibition “Imaginary Journeys”, staged in the Imbarcadero Rooms of the Castello Estense in Ferrara from 24 October to 1 November, was a great success: its launch was preceded outside by a delightful exhibition of traditional flag-wavers, which then proceeded into the halls inside with a brief welcome and thanks from the curator, Paola Trevisan, who presented a number of prizes to the exhibiting artists. Many of them were present among the crowd, which was of a considerable size and clearly showed its appreciation of the enormous and varied range of painting, photography and sculpture. An international exhibition of high quality art that has attracted many visitors from Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy and beyond. The enticing draw of the imagination as a link between such a variety of different poetic individuals who have developed their skills in various countries and with such passion, has found a large audience.

From Nigeria to Switzerland, the United States to the Netherlands, Australia to Israel, the sheer range of nationalities of the exhibiting artists forms a whole that is more interesting than ever, with a preponderance of abstract, informal paintings (not excluding figurative touches in some of them), together with the mouldable quality of elegant, essential sculpture to reflect today’s more intimate shapes. Colours, landscapes of the unconscious, symbols: each of the artists exhibiting here has made a mental journey into the minds of some among the many that populate our world and who are shown here in art, through three or four works. Ferrara, always a city of grand artistic horizons, has staged an important event that managed on the occasion to sense what is happening in art at present: it is global, though not standardised, but, rather, multi-faceted, with a profusion of talent, imagination and skill.