On May 19th and 20th, Aerografica opened its doors to successfully presents a wide group of emerging artists, from Italy and abroad, with their artworks, painted, partially or completely with an airbrush. Several art forms were shown: Fine Art, Illustration, Custom, Textile, etc.. An Iwata Custom Micron airbrush was awarded to the emerging artist Alessandro Cantucci, selected as the most worthy by a jury formed by the Special Guests and the Iwata crew. awarding

The fifth edition of this flourishing event took place as usual at the Lemon Shed, on top of the Villa Strozzi park, the most beautiful in town.

This year some of our Special Guests were the following top Airbrush Artists:

Guerrino Boatto (I)
Uschi Eschbach (D)
Renate Frei (CH)
Meinrad Froschin (D)
Joerg Hofmann (CH)
Claudio Mazzi (I)

On Saturday and Sunday the following live demos took place:

Renate Frei - Painting
Claudia Raddi - Custom Painting
Claudio Mazzi - Micro-Custom
Uschi Eschbach & Meinrad Froschin - Crazy Hair
Maurizio Fusi & Serena Ferrone - Bodypainting

Claudio Mazzi has painted a zippo. Uschi Eschbach & Meinrad Froschin (Crazy Hair), Renate Frei (Bodypainting), Claudia Raddi (Custom Painting), Maurizio Fusi & Serena Ferrone (Body-textile painting) a "reciprocal" performance, in which the two artists airbrushed each other simultaneously, something never tried before.

On both Saturday and Sunday,  free seminars with the Masters took place, as last years, this time featuring Guerrino Boatto, Joerg Hoffmann and Meinrad Froschin.

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Guerrino Boatto is probably the most famous Italian Airbrush artist worldwide, with agents in Italy, Germany and Japan. During his 25 years long career as an illustrator, he gained many top prizes and a fame that extends far beyond the airbrush world. Amongst his main clients there are Alitalia, CocaCola, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Ibm, Levis, Marlboro, Mercedes Benz and Pepsi. His most famous subjects are the cars and the most recent photorealistic views of Venice.

Joerg Hoffmann is also an accomplished Airbrush Artist, and he is exhibiting for the first time Italy. His main field is Automotive Custom Painting, but he is also active in the field of Illustration and Fine Art Painting, i.e. his favourite art forms. Joergs has an experience of over 20 years with the airbrush under his belt and became renowned in his homeland as well as abroad for the unic and personal style. With his astonishing new ideas and impressive technique he gained important prizes for Custom Art and the Swiss Master 2004 in Illustration and Custom.

Meinrad Froshin is considered to be one of the top and most creative European airbrush artists. Since 1993 he has been working in the fields of Fine Arts, Illustration, Bodypainting, Custom Painting and Wall Art. He took part to agreat number of shows all over Europe and in the USA, gaining many important prizes. Since a few years he is cooperating with hair stylist Uschi Eschbach, thus expanding his activity to airbrushing on hairdressing. The two artists have brought their "Crazy Hair" through all the main European airbrush events, and performed it again at Aerografica, in absolute preview for Italy.

Each Master had one or two artworks next and spoke about his career and techniques, and revealed all his tricks. At the end of each seminar plenty of time was devoted to the questions from the audience as well.