10th edition

18th - 19th July 2015

BARDOLINO - LAKE GARDA

MARILENA CENSI was born in Rimini in 1972. Since she was a child she used to show her passion and interest for drawing and painting. She studied in an Artistic High School and started to paint on canvas and murales. After the degree in 1990 she worked for a lot of years in the fashion industry.

In 2002 she got in touch with the art of Facepainting and 2010 she felt in love with Bodypainting, she started to paint bodies for festival, photo shooting and contest all around Italy. Since 2011 she practices the art of Bellypainting, the art to paint the pregnant mothers. 

In 2014 she reached two of her most important awards: third place in the world championship in Austria and she won the Italian Bodypainting Festival.

Website: http://bodyartmarilena.blogspot.it/

FRANK FK

An artist with a great interest in visual arts, this interest lead him to experience different techniques, since he stared to use the airbrush, that became the protagonist of his artistic career.

He's always present in all the airbrush demonstrations in Italy, we works in a lot of fields, from cars to motorbikes, till bodypainting, with works of art where the airbrush is always the main character. 

www.frankfk.it

ALEX BARENDREGT (Austria)

Is the organizer of the “World Bodypainting Festival ®”, the biggest art event in the bodypainting theme has taken place since 1998 every year in Austria, where tens of thousands of visitors admire the wonderful work of the participants.

Alex is the founder of the World Body Painting Association “WBA”, focused on networking of artists and bodypainting interested people and companies, promoting bodypainting as an art form and connecting creative minds. 

www.bodypainting-festival.com

ALBERT GREIS

Born in Augsburg in 1958 and artistically active since 1978 with images and sculptures, trope l’oeil with watercolor, oil and acrilic media.

He started his career as bodypainting artist in 1995 and in October 2002 he established the Bodypainting Studios www.bpsag.com

Since 2005 in the top ten at the World Bodypainting Award

Paintings for advertising and events also International Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas Cannex, Customers Coka-Cola, Volkswagen, UVEX, Porsche and many more......

DANILO CERIGNOLA

Class  1980. In  2001 he began working in the field of Special Effects and the study of plastic materials.   He graduated with honors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence address Stage design. In 2007 he founded together with painter Elena Sardelli the company Crea Fx – Special effects (www.creafx.com).

Over the years Danilo has developed many technical and artistic skills allow him to collaborate with film productions, theater and television, in Italy all over the world; realizing special make-up prosthetics for fantasy and hyper realistic subjects, aging, characterizations, and hairpieces. Danilo is specialized in the realization of anatomical reproductions, hyper-realist sculptures and silicone masks.

Most important collaborations during of: Closing ceremony Winter Olympic games in Sochi, Russia 2013; Edipo Re: Theather representation in Siracusa, Italy, 2012; L'Ultimo terrestre, the movie, Roma, Italy, 2011
The correspondence,  the movie, Roma, Italy, 2015; Museum of Leonardo da Vinci, Melbourne, Australia, 2009.

From the 2005 in his workshop Danilo gives courses about make-up effects techniques  for many students.