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Review 2009
| World Bodypainting Festival 2009 presented by "Kryolan" |
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An unbelievable World Bodypainting Festival has come to an end. Even when the festival Saturday was stormed with cold weather we were still able to welcome artists from 40 nations to celebrate the art of bodypainting together. I was able to again create the frame for the worlds largest and most spectacular bodypainting event with an unbelievable team. The new World Champions were celebrated through a coreography of music dance and show together with 26 thousand visitors.Since the beginning of the festival we have been trying to establish the bodypainting artform throughout the world. We have been able create a lot of movement for which I am very proud. |
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| This year we took a step further by placing the bodypainting art form on the professional television marcket. Straight after the festival a news play out was available over satelite via Eutelsat and till now we have had 6.800 minutes of international television presence.After this festival bodypainting will have had a positive image presented around the world. With the report on the final airtime hours due in the end of October we are expecting 1000 hours of television air time. I think this was always our combined goal, the goal of the whole bodypainting community. | |
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Enjoy the review about the World Bodypainting Festival 2009. Thousands of photos have been placed online in the passed weeks and days that pressent a lovely overview of the festival week. I am looking forward to seeing everyone again at the World Bodypainting Festival 2010, from 12. - 18. July. |
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 Photo: Oswin Eder |
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| Rückblick 2009 | |
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26.000 visitors were present at the World Bodypainting Festival, presented by "Kryolan", making it the largest Bodypainting Event of all time. |
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| The main days from 17. to 19. July ended with the giving of the world champions titles, the World Bodypainting Awards, presented by Kryolan. From the beginning of the week there were again many program highlights. |  |
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The Festival Week beggan with Workshop- and Demonstrations program with the WBF ACADEMY. The workshops from Monday to Thursday covered the areas of Bodypainting, Facepainting, Airbrush, Special Effects, Make upand colour theory through to photography and presentations about the history of bodypainting.
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Hundreds of participants used the opportunity to be inspired by experts and to pick up on the latest techniques. Internationally recognised experts, all professionals in their areas, shared their experiences and knowledge. |
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| Our sponsors and partners supported many of the workshops making it possible to have a wide ranging and comprehensive range of courses available. |  |
| During the festival week there was an exciting and inspiring exhibiton from the Puerto Rican artist Javier Velez in the Culture Hall. |  |
| "Corpórea - an experience of bodypainting" is a project where 3 different techniques are combined. Bodypainting, photography and oil painting. Javier Velez paints first his model, makes a photo of the bodypainting and then uses this photo as the inspiration for an oil painting. |  |
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Filippo Ioco and Craig Tracy held an artists forum and spoke over their understandings of Fine Art and Bodypainting. |
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The side events durring the festival week were held by the "WBF Institute of Sound" Through this there was a wider number of smaller event spots such as Point Bar, the B2 and Glashaus. Artists, photographers and models met at these places to celebrate seeing friends they had missed for a year and to get in contact with new visitors to the event.. |
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On Wednesday evening the first major highlight took place. The "BodyCircus" was held in the castle Burg Sommeregg. The castle was again filled with life with masks and costumes transforming the evening into a mystical and magical event. |
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| The weather was a dream until late in the evening. Over 800 visitors celebrated in the ancient walls of the castle until the early morning. |
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| The DJ Line up was lead by our Londoner WBF Resident DJ and producer Matt Emulsion, followed by the Lords of House, Sonic Seven, Kareem Raihani from Marokko, and the guys form Magic Bubble Events Sacoo Koster, Ramses and the Australian Dougal Hallowes. |  |
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The special Guest wasNina Contorsion, who shocked and amazed the audience with her flexability. |
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| In the morning grey the final guests left the castle Burg Sommeregg. |  |
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Thursday evening was the "PreGlow" with the "Portfolio Evening". Artists met in a relaxed atmosphere to share ideas about bodyart and make new friends. The Australian musician Brett Hunt played music to a happy crowd. |
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The winners of the World Bodypainting Photo Award from last year were awarded on that evenening. Alex Barendregt and Ulf Scherling presented the glas trophies to the winners in the photo competition 2009. The categroy "Photo Classic" was won by the Austrian Gerhard Grasinger and the category "Digital Art" was won by Avi Shabtai from Israe. (He could not be in Seeboden this year, so Lital Nave collected his trophy) |
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With the 10 year jubilee the "Hall of Fame" was created in the festival entrance. Due to the ever growing number of winners in the hall of fame the artworks were presented on television screens in the entrance.. |
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The themes for 2009 were 'poetry - the power of words' on the first days and 'spirituality - beyond the visible world' on the final day. |
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The first main day, Friday, began with the special category Special Effects Make up, and the pre-selection for the world award category Brush and Sponge. |
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The whole Friday was under the music theme of Austrian Musiclab and Puls4. |
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The festival grounds were expanded yet again so that from this year there are three activity areas. The main stage, a side stage and the action area "The Sandpit". |
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| As the public were waiting for the first model presentations the jury had already been at marking for hours. The internationally renound artists who made up the jury were Ernst Wieser (A), Bella Volen (Bulgaria), Dennis Penkov (Germany), Craig Tracy (USA); Filippo Ioco (USA) Mike Shane (Luxemburg) and Jinny (Canada) |  |
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Our Bodypaint City TV Crewbroadcast the festival over the whole three main days.. Impressions, Live Interviews, Shows and Live Music were braodcast over Videowall, Plasma TV, screens and as streaming live over our website. |
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After the main presentations the winners in the main categories were interviewed on Bodypaint City TV. |
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Before the artists were awarded with the UV awards on Friday there was an thundering ryhthm performance from the Berlin drum group "Stamping Feet".
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After the concert from Stamping Feet it got dark on the stage again. The World Fluoro Awards were on program. 15 chosen artists were able to take part in the Uv awards and it was a unique show put on by these international artist. Straight after the show the winners were announced and the title of World Champion was given. |
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The exhibition area offered products from all the most important companies in the bodypainting industry with all the products available that someone could want. From 10.30 - 20.00 the shops were open for visitors and artists. |
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| Saturday was a day we would like to forget. Cold winds and storming rain pounded the festival grounds till 1pm. As the rain stopped and the temperatures dropped the awards Facepaintingpresented by "Silly Farm" and the Amateur Award presented by "Mehron" began in the large tent. |  |
| As it was always possible that weather could make it too cold for models, the categories Airbrush and Special Effects were put forward to Sunday as is written in the rule book. |
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As there were anyway many visitors on the festival grounds it was open for the artists to create and present their work to the crowd anyway when their models were happy to participate. Reguardless of the weather many artists were prepared to participate anyway which was wonderful to see. The artist Jeanette Biedermann with her new album "Undress to the Beat" also celbrated and performed to a large crowd on the main stage. |
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| The new video to the title of the album was the reason to ask, Jeanette to be part of the festival. UV and Bodypainting played an important part to the video of "Undress to the beat". |  |
| Jeanette Biedermann enjoyed herself at the festival and even showcased the new WBF Shirt collection '09 |  |
| To finish the day on Saturday Mike Shane celebrated the 10 year existance of Bodypainting.at with his artist collegues Spanish Daaz, UV specialist Wolf Reicherter and Lena Pock who were all part of this amazing action painting to the name of Art Connects. |
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Our sponsors such as Segafredo and Pago were also infected by the bodypainting vibe. |
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The winners awards for Special Effects Make were presented on the same day as the competition. |
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| The marcket place was open till late night so that the visitors could take home accessores and interesting things. |  |
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The photoarea was the hot spot after the jury on all three main days.
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| Oswin Eder was able to make this amazing photo in the Photo Award Area. Nature photography of another kind :-) |  |
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TheKryolan VIP Lounge was a meeting place for guests from the media, commerce, politics and arts.
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It was amazing how some of the artists involved themselves in the model presentations. Ennio Bettoni and Leonardo G. Borgese told the story of humanity.
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Sunday was the final day of the World Bodypainting Festival 2009. In the main categories Brush and Sponge, Airbrush and Special Effects Bodypainting the world champions were crownd. |
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| Italys Star DJ Gigi d'Agostino pumped up the audience before the model presentations. |
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| The WBF Fashion Department was able to present three fashion shows this year: On Friday there wasr Lisa Pek and Leaving Lychee on the Catwalk. The Klagenfurter fashion school DiWiMo presented a Fashion Show before the giving of the world champion titles under the patronage of the fashion designer Birgit Mörtl presented by MAC Professional |
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After the winners ceremony the Swiss artist Marcel Krauer presented a bodypainting musical just before the seconds to 0 counted down for the bodypainting calender year. |
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| The After Show Party again turned into the maddest party in the world as people spontaniously grabbed their hands at some bodypainting colours and turned the crowd into a multicolour mass of happiness. The party ended at 4.30am and anyone who didnt have paint all over them simply wasnt there. |  |
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We are looking forward to seeing you all again next year! |
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