Competition: House of Cinnamon Bisquits

[Le Woltaire]

AIV and Spectral Adventures is organizing an international competition that is open to everyone.

The theme is:

1: Make a house out of star-shaped cinnamon bisquits.
2: Make a picture or photo of your house 300 dpi; 210mm x 297mm; landscape format
3: Send the picture to until 7.December 2009
4: The photos will be passed to a jury of 15 qualified architects from all over the world.

Prize:
1st Prize: 100 â,¬
2nd Prize: 60 â,¬
3rd Prize:  40 â,¬

Special Prizes:
5 original Andy Warhol graphics (different motives)
3 original HAP Grieshaber graphics

The most outstanding 20 entries are going to be published in international magazines.

More info here:
http://www.baunetz.de/dl/686610/Auslobung.pdf

The AGS community is invited to participate.
Have fun.

[Andail]

Original and signed Andy Warhol? Holy macaroni, that's in the range of $20.000 and upwards

[Le Woltaire]

I haven't seen them for now. But maybe they are lithographies or similar.
They were sponsored by two jewish collectionists of my region...
Additional sponsors have confirmed their participation so the prizes might rise...
We just started with 200 â,¬ bucks to get the competition going...
Additional sponsors are welcome.

[Le Woltaire]

Ok, the last chance:

Two days remain until the competition is done. We recieved 13 entries for now from all over the world.
So if you have an idea for a house mande of star shaped bisquits you might want to send it in now.
Again: The best 20 entries will be published in international architectural magazines.

It can be a painting, drawing, rendering, photo or a background for an adventure game aswell.
Just whatever you like based on the theme.

[GarageGothic]

Wait, so you didn't actually have to BUILD a house from biscuits? I though that was the whole point of the competition.

[Le Woltaire]

You CAN build a house of bisquits or just a model of a house in a certain scale.

But like it is always in architectural competitions of this type you have A LOT of liberties.

So you can also send a blueprint of an idea, a painting, a photoshopped picture or game background, a 3D rendering ...
but it should be something around star-shaped cinnamon bisquits.

And it should be a 300 DPI jpeg landscape format (21cm x 29,7 cm) like descibed in the reward offer above.


We recieved all type of stuff for now, so it will be a very different result.
I will post a link of the best 20 pictures in here when the jury is done with the selection.
Again: The jury consists of 14 VIP architects from all over the world who will give poitns to each image independently.

If you have an idea just go and photoshop your sunday away or whatever you like to do.

[Chicky]

Have we found out if they are original Warhol yet?!

[Le Woltaire]

The gallerist that sponsors the Warhol graphics says that they are original.
I believe that they are silkscreens but have not seen them for now.
An original Warhol silkscreen can be purchased from 100 â,¬ upwards I'd say, depending on it's edition.
An original HAP Grieshaber woodcut print can be purchased from 50 â,¬ upwards.

So if you look for a lot of money:
No, I don't believe it's worth more than let's say 300 â,¬.
I'm very sure.

[Andail]

Sorry, but "original and signed" implies a limited edition print, numbered and signed by the artist himself.
Various foundations and other institutes can manufacture and sell authorised prints for any amount of euros, down to the price of a simple poster.

But for a truly signed and numbered limited edition print by Warhol to cost â,¬100, it must be an exceedingly large edition.
Not like these prints, for instance.

[Le Woltaire]

Well in any case whatever the gallerist is going to sponsor, I can't believe that it is worth a lot of money.
I also believe it must be a large edition, or maybe I got it wrong and it is one of the not signed quality prints.
This might also be possible.

I mean it doesn't really cost a lot of effort to participate in here...
An example: We got drawings by nine years old kids aswell that were done in maybe half an hour...

It's not so much about money but more about bringing cultures and generations together...

[Le Woltaire]

Ok, I just made a phone call and asked about the correct and concrete info about the Warhol pictures.

-They are limited prints (200 pieces) with motives Butterfly, Marylin Monroe (possibly also others I didnt get everything on the Phone).
-They are not signed but original.
-The number of prints that can be won has now has raised to five Warhols instead of three.

We now recieved 23 pictures of which 20 will be exposed. The competition is still open until the end of 7th December.

[Le Woltaire]

I am now posting the entries that we got for the competition.
In total we recieved 39 bisquit houses.
Most of them came from Germany but three came from the AGS scene,
so you can watch them all here:

http://www.aiv-karlsruhe.de/cinnamon.htm

The jury is currently deciding the winners and also the 20 pictures, that are going to be exposed.
Thanks for now. I will announce the winners here later.

[Le Woltaire]

The winners of the cinnamon competition have been decided by the jurors.
The best 20 entries can be seen here:

http://www.aiv-karlsruhe.de/zimto_winners.htm

All winners have been contacted.
Have a nice Christmas.