ARTISTICA 2005

2^nd  INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF CHEF ARTISTS
Hall of the Chefs Gastronomic Art and Artistic expressions

From January the 5 to 8, 2005

Manifestation Purpose

            The Italian Federation of Chefs wanted to organize an International competition to show up the Cook figure watched, not only as gastronomic operator, but also as expert of the ephemeral and visual art. It’s an occasion to realize an event also for people, cooking experts, who make, as amateur or professionist, extreme expressions of gastronomic products, simply manifactured only to be admired. That’s the most important event in Italy (about this kind) that joins, in only one exposition, all the visual expressions connected with the world of aestetic cooking and of the restoration at 360º. It’s a cultural occasion that FIC and Rimini Fair want to diffuse on all counties recognized by WACS – World Association of Cooks’ Societies as professional exchange, technological comparison, artistic enrichment and, overall, divulgment for young of the different expression of the “Good-watching”. It’s for FIC also an occasion to approach to the not-direct cooking, that can enjoy many young and started to love Cookery, giving more importance to that qualities often choked by poor production. It’s an opportunity for Hotel and Restorative world and for enterprise to understand in what way these Cookery expressions can help the sale of restorative offer. 

Aim of the event.

• To join all the “Good-watching” artistic expressions in only one competitive manifestation.
• To compare all artistic expressions of the gastronomic product in a competition without watching direct technics.
• To permit to observe and admire all art models made by chefs.
• To award every day the aristic work that is the most interesting than the others, from indicators of valuation schedules.

Articles of manifestation.

1. They are admited all Chefs that fill-in the application form, work in all the world, have special qualities, professionality, competences into artistic field, joined to food products used in the Restoration world cooking.
2. Every participant can take part bringing one or more works absolutely artistic, joined to the expression “Good-watching” and choosing among these possibilities: vegetables engravings, cheese sculptures, fruits ang vegetables triumphes, ice sculptures, sugar, margarine (or other fats) and/or chocolate manufactures, Pasta Pane and/or Marzapane compositions, cakes decorations and pastry works.
3. All the shown artistic works, belonged to one of categories, are considered the only-one-made and, so, they can be compared among themselves, without any type of distinction.
4. Jury will value all artistic works made by eatable products, using the same form for all and with the same indicators.
5. Supports are admitted only for particularly heavy works. In this case, concurrent must advise Jury before all valuations and also about all extra materials.
6. This is an official FIC competition, participants must observe these articles and participation is opened to all chefs.
7. Works exposition will be decided by the organization, there will be a calendar following the organizing requests and the eventual availability of participants.
8. Works must be shown to public till the end of the fixed day. This is an useful indication for Press, Colleagues, Operators and Public to verify works and relative assigned score. Only after daily awarding, and with authorisation from the organization, shown and valued works can be withdraw by participants.
9. Every participant must show himself during all day with complete and right dresses. During awardings, Jury won’t deliver medals to Participants if these won’t be in regular uniform.
10. To all artistic works, indipendently by kind or theme, organization will put an exposition table. Maximum measures, in which works have to be gathered, are 160 X 80. If limits won’t be respected, 5 penality points will be assigned. Requests for current taps or other must be made during the registration.
11. For people who will work on the place, organization will offer a personal working space of 160 X 80. Requests for current taps or other must be made during the registration.
12. Jury judgment is unobjectionable. Only at the end of valuation, jury members will be available to explain results for who will ask for it.
13. Participation fees won’t be refund for any reason.

14. All “ARTISTICA” concurrents must accept all these articles and possible decisions, signing also the document for FIC and Rimini Fair to freely use photografic material, films and voices and everything will be useful for the organizations to spread, through every way, exposed works and concurrents participations.
15. FIC and Rimini Fair will freely use photografic material of this competition without any bond from participants or other subjects.
16. FIC and Rimini Fair don’t have any criminal and civil responsibilities joined to “ARTISTICA” concurrents participations.
17. All participants have to inform the organization, during the registration and exposition stages, about the name decided for their work, name that will be written on the exposition ticket-label and on all press articles.
18. This competition is born to increase the real dimonstration of artistic works preparation. Jury will value with much attention processing stages and the shown work.
19. Participants who want to subscrive at the A and C categories are left out from the “special award” classification, reserved only for live works.
20. All participants will have a participation certificate with the score they gained.
21. Medals will be assigned following the International indications, with a maximum of 80 points, with this division: from 56 to 63 Bronze Medal; from 64 to 71 Silver Medal; from 72 to 80 Gold Medal. The special award will be assigned to a work realized on the place and that will obtain the most high score.
22. Jury, with its self-government, can give Special Awards, for every expositive day, to Participants who achieved particulary valuations or for some hard, new and difficult art.
23. Special Award Rimini Fair: at the end of competition, Jury can give one or more Special Award following all final results.
24. For this competition, standards are as follow:

General Harmony of the work         from 0 to 20

            Style, idea and conception                from 0 to 10

            Development, form and colors         from 0 to 10

            Technic polish                                   from 0 to 10

            Originality and innovation                from 0 to 10   

Difficulties during the execution      from 0 to 20.

25. All Concurrents can take part to Artistica with more than one work and each work will be singly valued.
26. Registration fee is referred to the single day of exposition but it is independent from the number of realized and registered works.
27. Participation to more than one day  binds concurrent to pay the registration fee for each expositive requested day.
28. All works presented for the category A hadn’t had taken part to other competitions at least three mounth before Artistica.
29. To participants, after regular registration, useful indications will be communicated for their expositions.

Participations rules:

Category A – Artistic Works ready

a)       Participants can enter into Rimini Fair, for their registrations, at the FIC office from 7.00 AM showing their papers at the door.

b)       Registered participants can take their assigned place for processing stages of the artistic work from 7.30 AM.

c)       All artistic works must be completed before 10.00 AM to make Jury turn around tables.

d)       Jury can give 5 penalty point for a delay in work presentation.

e)       Ticket-labels for each Artistic work will show only the work name.

f)         At the end of jury valuation, it will be possibile to identify the artistic work with paper and personal promotional material.

g)       At the end of awardings, every participant have tu put in order his place and everything he has utilized.

Category B –Works on Stage

Participants can enter into Rimini Fair, for their registrations, at the FIC office from 7.00 AM showing their papers at the door.

h)       Registered participants can take their assigned place for processing stages of the artistic work from 7.30 AM .

i)         Concurrents of Category B can be helped by one or more assistants, but they can’t absolutely participate to the true realization of the work.

j)         Workings can started only with the Jury President official Start at 10.30.

k)      The maximum time for work construction is 4 hours.

l)         Jury can give 5 penalty point for a delay in work presentation.

m)     Ticket-labels for each Artistic work will show only the work name.

n)       At the end of jury valuation, it will be possibile to identify the artistic work with paper and personal promotional material.

o)       At the end of awardings, every participant have tu put in order his place and everything he has utilized.

Category C – Out of Competition

·        Works made by big and famous Professionist Chefs, that want to put on evidence the competition, are admitted.

·        Restoration Schools and Professional Centers are admitted.

·        Restoration Schools and Professional Centers can take part at Artistica with young students, as single, group or class.

·        Students must be followed by a School Director or Laboratory Teacher.

·        School Directors or Laboratory Teachers take on all responsabilities for their students, exempting FIC and Rimini Fair from any responsibility for the participation to Artistica.

·        Chefs and Students for this category (out of competition) must observe all registration rules, as for the other categories.

·        Chefs and Students for this category (out of competition) will receive the participate certificate.

·        Restoration School and Professional Center, that registered single students or groups, will receive the participate certificate.

·        If requested, jury, without giving any definitive judgements to works presented by Schools, can give its valuation and its own opinion and advices useful to participate at future editions of Artistica into Category A or B.

·        At the end of competition, a Special Award will be delivered to the School or Professional Center that better shows up for their works Category C, only under the Jury last decision.

·        Category C participants must observe all times and assigned places.

·        During all day of the event, every participant of the Category C must show himself with complete and right dresses.

General rules:

To take part at this competition You have to send directly to FIC office the filled-in registration form (printed one) with the participation fee. The last day to send everything is fixed on 15^th January 2005 (postal print will assure us about the date).

The participation fee payment can be done through bank allowance at

Banca Popolare Commercio e Industria – Agency Milano n. 126

c/c n. 998/1 - ABI 05048 - CAB 01641 - CIN L – SWIFT POCIITMM

or through not transferable cheque registered under

Federazione Italiana Cuochi – Artistica 2005

PARTICIPATION FEES:

FIC members for the years 2004 and/or 2005 35 euros

Not FIC members                                                      50 euros

For any other information about this competition, you can contact directly the FIC General Secretary at the telephone number (0039) 02-66983141.

Inscription to competition means the agree to these articles and rules. FIC can make some eventual corrections to competition for unexpected causes.

FIC and the Organizing Comitee decline every responsibility for damages provoked to everyone-everything during the manifestation.

INTERNATIONAL LINES

Standards of judgements and valuations observe all lines fixed for the International Competitions.

·        All Artistic presentation must be shown with the right name on the side.

·        Each name can’t be abstract or imaginary but it must be referred directly to the work.

·        Utilized food must be harmonious with the main element.

·        Exposed works can be dissected by Jury to prove the real use of right products (only eatable ones).

·        It is not allowed to concurrents to realize any part of the work with not-eatable elements, everything into the work must be with the eatable ones.

ADVISES AND INDICATIONS

These points put on evidence everything that can be considered good aspects and qualitative elements:

1.      Originality and innovation

2.      Colors and Harmony of the work       

3.      Execution techincs

4.      The sole work into this competition;

5.      Eatable materials use;

6.      Respect of established times;

7.      Organization of every working place;

8.      Cleaning, order and hygiene;

9.      Precise definition of the work.

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