Ferrara  Museum of the Estense Castle 

International Art Exhibition 

Ferrara - Italy

November 18 – 26 th 2006

Magıc - The Magıc Paths Of Art  Eser Afacan (Norway/Canada), Luciana Alvarez (Canada), Luigi Amati (Olanda), Anýl Gülçin (Turchia), Jeannette Berndsen (Usa/Olanda), Paul Bernhard (Norway), Tina Blondell (Usa), Barbara Böesch (Svizzera), Cariya Breemen (Usa), Renée Breig (Svezia), Peter Buchar (Svezia), Blanca Ruth Casanova (Mexico), Jose Maria Casas “two-“ (Argentina), Monica Cordes (Austria), Jerry L. Day (Usa), Anita Dielen (Olanda), Marga Duin (Olanda), Slavko Dujic (Olanda), FERRE’ (Francia), Carlo Alberto Fiorini (Italia), Blake Flynn (Usa), Maximo Gonzalez Devoto (Argen), Bahadir Gökay (Turchia) ,  Eric Anthony Hinds (Usa), Ruth Jensen (Danimarca), Michele Renée Ledoux (Usa), Ton Lindhout (Germania/Olanda), Maura Joy Lustig (Canada), Fran Mc Cann (Irlanda), Antonio Mendozza (Colombia), Hans Mertens (Olanda), Sofia Minson (Nuova Zelanda), Hye Ja Moon (Korea), Helena Nascimento (Olanda), Susan Nielsen (Danimarca), Gunilla Oldenburg (Svezia), Maud Quaedvlieg (Olanda), Sebastien (Svizzera), Willy Seiler (Svizzera), Jacky Sluijter (Olanda), Stefano Solimani (Italia), Spögler Gabi & Andres Frosch (Svizzera), Robert Süess (Svizzera), Julien Vonier (Svizzera), Helen Walliser (Svizzera), John Weeronga Bartoo (Australia), Lew Wilson (Usa), Domenico Zambianchi (Italia).

Magic: at first this theme could appear obsolete and out of style, yet the Magic and Esoteric is an important element in the Arts as well as in our daily life, since we cannot separate Art and Life.

Emotions stirred by artwork are part of Magic, so are the beauty and poetry suggested through a landscape – created by the impulses and inner reality of the Artist when he organizes them on a canvas - , the surreal and fantastic dimensions of our mind in all of its expressions are intimately connected to our inconscious which is a magical world.

Memory and memories are magic traces of our reality. Art is magic as it has the unlimited power of its pictorial vocabulary at its disposal in the act of creating. In this way Art is akin to Life because it is a Creation.

The organizers, as usual during the Exhibitions at the Estenese Castle, will select and bring together artists representative of this kind of spiritual and artistic research connected with the magic theme and who still believe in the emotional possibilities that this art offers. The range of expressive forms can be extremely wide and varied: painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, installations and graphic art.