"Figures" of artistic kitemakers
Clinging to the mercy of the winds, a futile object, searching some new shapes, playing with the colours of the tails: there is in the creation kite fliers’ motivations an artistic approach. Genius handyman or creator, kite flyer or plastics technician, each one’s contribution goes to make for an unexpected explosion.
The perfecting of new materials, lighter and stronger, have liberated the men ideas of many restraints. So nearly all of the ideas are realisable : the sky is the limit when it comes to the imagination. Today, creative kites could be considered as really true works of art.
For some, this is a play on the shapes and colours, and their different perceptions according to the distance.
The pleasure is in watching some flying sculptures, which draw nearer or move further away from the spectator, offering different emotions. For others, it is the apotheosis of the transparency, place where the light lives, reconciliation place between the sky and the ground, with the purest and the most original place.For all, it is an occasion to leave the workshop and the pot of paintings to exhibit out at sky instead of in a gallery.
During each Dieppe edition we can meet the biggest creators in the world.
"Figures" of artistic kitemakers :
The DIEPPE Creative Kite Contest
First festival to realize the feasibility that the kite can be used to support the creative imagination. The Dieppe contest consecrated the creators’ flying works.
Since then, they have seen their works increased in legitimacy, and have obtained a world recognition on the occasion of invitations by most of the biggest kite festivals.
Hundreds of participants will come from all over the world in order to show the fruit of their work around the theme renewed with each edition.
The Creators Workshop
Initiated in 2002, the “Creative Area” will be run by the creator kite fliers which will made it into their workshop. At the view of the audience, they will create new works, new kites, based on the Woman theme. That way they will explain to the audience their artistic approach.
A selection of international artists work on very avant-gardist creations.
This workshop should be an area in which the latest developments in art kiting materialize and are presented to the audience.
Participate in this workshop some artists universally recognized as Ton Geers, but also Anna Rubin, and Istvan Bodoczky, etc...
