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We are proud to present you these iconic artists
for the jury of the
World Bodypainting Festival 2009:
  • Ernst Wieser, Austria

Ernst Wieser is a master airbrush artist who has defined his skill and style for more than two decades since he first tried his hand at bodypainting 23 years ago.
For the passed ten years Enrst has been the head of the Jury for the "World Bodypaitning Festival" with the "World Bodypainting Awards" in Austria. He has worked together with the organization of the festival to raise standards and push bodypainting around the world.

Ernst Wieser works closely with many photographers and studios with his art making and he owns a major painting company working on interiors and exteriors. A recent artistic project of his that has and continues to received a lot of attention is his airbrush bodypainting work in connection with Natural History Museum of  Carinthia.  With an airbrush in his hand Ernst can achieve anything and he is happy to pass on his techniques to both beginners and professionals in the art world.

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  • Jinny, Canada

Jinny is taking the world of fantasy art by storm.
With her Degree in Art and teaching hundreds of face painters and Make-Up Artists all over United-States, Overseas and in Canada, her native country, she travels the world sharing her face painting techniques in intensive classes and in specialized shows. She helped develop the Paradise makeup AQ line of make-up by Mehron.
She is President of Jinny, Make-Up Artiste Inc., Co-creator of Paradise Make-Up AQ, Mehron Advisor, Chief MakeUp Artist at Cirque du Soleil Special Events.
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  • Filippo Ioco, USA
Filippo Ioco is one of the most outstanding bodypainting artists alive. His groundbreaking work covers an extraordinary range of styles and ideas. His combination of experience, understanding, inspiration, innovation and courage has kept his work at the top for almost two decades. Filippo’s work explores gender roles, sexuality, and perceptions of male and female shapes. He has placed the painted human body in every imaginable environment from natural to artificially created environments to frame his ideas.
His advertising portfolio contains some of the most successful combinations of body art for the media. His work has been featured in music videos, on book covers, on television commercials and in the printed media. Filippo also dedicates a large amount of his artistic energy to charity work.
For those lucky enough to get the chance, watching Filippo paint live is like connecting with creation itself. His performances and models are spontaneous and alive. The documentation of his artwork through photography and video is lasting evidence of a long career of talent that continues to evolve today.
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  • Craig Tracy, USA
"My paintings are like songs that I sing only once but that I listen to for a lifetime." Craig Tracy Craig Tracy is a master airbrush artist, painter and sometimes even finger painter. He combines his work with both the living form and traditional canvas art to create illusions in fine detail. His compositions demand a perfect placement of the body that harmonises with the natural shapes present and reflects his appreciation of human beauty. Craig Tracy became an important part of the bodypainting community when he joined the World Bodypainting Festival in 2004. He immediately found a place among an artistic circle of friends that has encouraged communication between artistic styles. He also further earned the respect of fellow artists and bodypainting appreciators by becoming world champion in the category of airbrush bodypainting. Craig helps spread understanding for the art of bodypainting to its viewers by bringing together artists with varying styles and techniques. Some of his most interesting work is in collaboration with fellow bodypainting artists. One of Craig’s greatest achievements has been the creation of the ‘Painted Alive Gallery’ in New Orleans. This is an innovation for the bodypainting world as it is a space dedicated purely to bodypainting.		 craig_tracy
  • Dennis Penkov, Germany
Dennis Penkov has a traditional training in mask making and works in the direction of special effects.For seven years he was responsible for the creation and application of special effects and make up in Bablsberg.
To further his experience of effects he founded and directs Skinart - MakeUp-FX Academy. Along side working for film and television productions the studion offeres seminars for mask making and special effects interested people all over Germany. Since 2004 he is directing the first school for make up and special effects in Germany.
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  • Bella Volen, Bulgaria

Bella is one of the most inventive artists bringing together her training in colour theory, composition, and symbology with illusory light to create imaginative compositions on muscle and skin.
Bella comes from an arts family in Sofia, the capitol of Bulgaria, and was raised among painters, sculptors, dancers and poets. Bella extended her natural talent with twelve years of formal study in some of the most prestigious art institutes.Bella’s painting on canvas reflects strong architectural interests. The building of walls and structures is symbolic for order and stability in human lives. Bella takes built structures and transforms them into optical illusions with light and colour to distort the realities of what surrounds the characters in her paintings. Her work challenges the viewer to take a leap into her passionate imagination, away from stability and order.
Bella’s bodypainting work contains the same strength of visual messages as her canvas work, inviting the viewer to step out of their boundaries and think away from structured reality. She also works with UV and has won the World Champion title for her UV bodypainting.

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  • Mike Shane,Luxembourg
Mike Shane’s style of bodypainting is exhilarating and potent. His creation of the ‘action painting’ style is an innovation and a breakthrough. The technique remains his alone, as he works in the ‘now’ to colour moments of space and time. His work brings together all the necessary aspects of bodypainting - painter, performer, photographer, with such clarity of vision that his artwork is unforgettable.
Mike has studied fine arts and in his performances work with athletic and balletic models whose movements are elegant and intriguing. Mike’s radical liquid splashes of colours contrast with each other on ever changing levels as he composes, changes and destroys his fluid orchestral artworks. His works also celebrate the movement of paint with gravity, how fast, where and why it will move a certain way over the shapes it reaches.
Mike has created an impressive portfolio of work for advertising and promotion. Some of these works are carried out in his action painting style but many of them show a separate angle to his work that is equally creative. Mike is able to take the logo or idea of the company he is contracted by and to design it into a bold pattern of colours that lives on the body. These bodypaintings are equally important as they show that it is possible to create a commercial bodypainting and still have an artwork as a finished product.		 mike_shane