Jesi, thousands in the city for the four-day Ratata’ festival

Jesi (Ancona), 16 April 2024 – Thousands in the city for the Ratatà festival, an event that brought to the city a real breath of energy, colours, creativity in the name of contemporary artistic expression. There were many events inaugurated from last Thursday to Sunday, dedicated to drawing, comics, illustration, independent publishing, animation and urban arts. The entire city fabric was involved, bringing together public and private entities that opened their spaces to host exhibitions, meetings, murals, performances, screenings of animated short films, installations, markets, concerts. What holds all this together is the desire to overcome difficulties, to relate and build the need to connect through discussion and exchange. The city’s accommodation facilities, bars and restaurants have also benefited from the important flow of interested and curious people who have flocked to Jesi in recent days. Furthermore, there was a huge turnout at the market exhibition set up in the covered market in via Mercantini, where more than one hundred artistic collectives, independent publishers, students of fine arts academies from all over Europe, presented their productions in the city, provoking considerable interest during the days of the festival. The A-dialogoi exhibition was also highly appreciated and well attended, the title of which acts as a common thread throughout the 2024 edition, set up in the Betto Tesei rooms of Palazzo Pianetti, which in just two days welcomed more than 600 visitors enthusiastic about opening to the international languages ​​of artists invited to reflect on the subtle limit between communication and the impossibility of communicating. The exhibition, which will remain open until June 23, hosts the works of the Swiss artist Johanna Schaible, the Taiwanese duo Lin & Wei Studio, the Austrian Tanja Boukal, the Spanish Diego Mallo, the South African Anton Kannemeyer and the Italian Ema Jons . Also at Palazzo Pianetti, a second exhibition was inaugurated, The Ungodz, which involved six male and female artists invited to “dialogue” with the Virgilian epic of Aeneas present in the eighteenth-century ceilings, in a game of references and distorting mirrors. Many curiously attended the role-playing sessions based on the texts of the writer Marco Taddei, who delighted in rewriting the adventure of the Aeneid painted right on the ceilings of the art gallery. At the Planettiana Library, with the possibility of visiting them until May 11th, large works by the artist Arianna Vairo are on display. At the Children’s Library, until May 16th, the tables of the illustrator Chiara Ficarelli. “It is impossible to list – underlines the councilor for culture Luca Brecciaroli – the many initiatives that have crowded and made people cross our city in a different way for a few days. A vibrant and positive atmosphere that Ratatà made us experience, based on dialogue and relationships, also involving, and finally, the youngest men and women, as well as artists of international caliber. I also want to highlight the quality of the cultural offering and thank all those people, associations, venues and commercial activities who worked to build this Festival”.