"Open de Bretagne 2009" contest & exhibition

[Naoned]

"Open de Bretagne, May 2009" Contest & exhibition in France

Hi everyone,



Just to tell you that the figurine exhibition and contest "L'Open de Bretagne de la Figurine" will take place on 30 & 31 may 2009, near Nantes in Brittany, (northern-western part of France).

Here the gallery to show you some pictures taken in the hall where the contest take place: http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/Ambiance



All the informations and galleries about this event are on our painting club web site: http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.org/

Click on "Open de Bretagne 2009" and choose the english or french version for the presentation.



For the 2009 event, it will be the 5th edition. The precedent edition was in 2007. We have had about 500 firgurines in competition and over 800 on exhibition.

Organisation: painting club "Les Chevaliers du Centaure".

Hope to see you there! In 2007, the contestants came from all over France and from abroad, like Belgium, the U.K, Spain and even (from as far as) Quebec ! .

For 2007 the guest of honnour was Allan Carrasco. For 2009, it will be an "historical" artist.



The best of show 2007 (by Daniel Ipperti):





All the pictures of the galleries in the differents categories:

http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.o..._de_la_Figurine_2007:Les_galeries_du_concours


Some pictures:














May be you could come here in may 2009 !

we will be happy to host you

 

[Guy]

Thanks for the link. I looked through your club gallery. Very impressive work.

 

[Naoned]

here some links to the contest galleries of the 2007 edition:

Masters painting: http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/MASTERSPeinture

Masters open/scratch: http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/MASTERSTransfo

Standard painting: http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/CONFIRMESPeinture

Standard open/scratch: http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/CONFIRMESTransfo

Beguinners : http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/NOVICES

juniors < 16 years old : http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/Juniors

 

[Naoned]

Hi everyone,

The guest of honnour 2009 will be the french sculptor: Benoit Cauchies

He works for some famous compagnies as Pegaso.

Some pieces of his work :
http://picasaweb.google.fr/Chevaliers.du.Centaure/Benoit_Cauchies

his interview (in french) : http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.org/?Les_interviews:Benoit_Cauchies


The official figure of this 5th edition, sculpted by a member of our club (Jean-marc Couëtoux): "Donan, the sleeping korrigan"
korrigan = a wooden elf, here in Brittany.

This mini will be the subjetc of a painting trophy for this contest; the winner will win this piece, but painted by Thomas DAVID ( http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/thomasdavid.tm )

To get one piece ( price : 5 € + postage for 1 to 3 pieces (1.8 € in European Union, 2.50 € in the rest of the world)), contact our painting club:
http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.org/?&mailform

 

[Naoned]

And another version of this figure, painted by Marion Ball
For more pictures of this version; follow the news in this page:
http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.org/?Niouzes_du_site_-_News_-_Neues

 

[Naoned]

I've added the poster of the 5th edition at the top of the page.
The figure is sculpted by Benoit Cauchies (guest of honnor) for Pegaso and painted by Danilo Cartacci.
The others figures are sculpted or painted by members of our painting club.

 

[Naoned]

Hi everybody,

the contest is in 4 weeks!
We have added a "Greens" category for sculpted and unpainted figures.
All the informations about this event is on our website
http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.org/?Les_evenements:Open_de_Bretagne_de_la_Figurine_2009

For the figure "the sleeping Korrigan", i've realised a map to see from where the people got one piece in miniatures shows or ordered it via internet :
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=f....589701,-59.414062&spn=79.108606,227.8125&z=3

 

[Naoned]

Hi to all,
And some news about our show at today D-7 before the show:

115 contestants are registred, 420 figures. We are waiting more unteal the next week-end.

Here a map daily uptated to see where they come from:

http://maps.google.fr/maps/ms?ie=UT...d=117646036181856186009.000465176ef784a5998ff


Some newspapers and local radios are talking about the show :

http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.o..._Bretagne_de_la_Figurine_2009:Revue_de_Presse

 

[Naoned]

And the first pictures gallery, here (the preparation of the show hall on friday)

http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.o...ne_de_la_Figurine_2009:Les_Galeries_de_Photos

 

[Jamie Stokes]

Eric,
thanks for sharing, lots of good images there!

cheers

 

[Naoned]

Here some pictures taken in the morning during the installation of the contestants.

http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.o...ne_de_la_Figurine_2009:Les_Galeries_de_Photos

(see the second gallery on the page)

 

[Naoned]

Hi Everybody,

Here the link about the pictures gallery (3rd link on the page)

694 pieces were in coimpetition (instead of 512 in 2007) !

Best of Show Historical : Philippe Gengembre
Best of Show Fantasy: Sylvain Deschamps

The Link :
http://www.chevaliers-du-centaure.o...ne_de_la_Figurine_2009:Les_Galeries_de_Photos


And here, the korrigan painted by Jean-François Pierre ( http://jfp.jimdo.com/ ) who won the special trophy "Korrigan"