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In Reggio Emilia the Giareda Feast

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4th and 5th September 2010

XIX Giareda Feast

Reggio Emilia

Report by Mrs. Luciana Queirolo

On beginning of September, Reggio Emilia hosts the Giareda Feast : historic rendevous, which every year gathers aroud the Blessed Virgin Basilica of the Giareda and in Garibaldi Avenue the Reggiana citizenship for a rendezvous of great symbolic value.

Thanks to the organization cared by the Helen Bonsai Club, by the President Mr.Vanni and by all club's members, the Giareda arrived to the XIX edition, has become so as few events in Italy, a firm point of meeting for Italian Bonsai and suiseki lovers.

To this 2010 edition have not taken part, however many A.I.A.S. members, occupied on other fronts : exhibition of local Clubs of belonging.

Among the stones exhibited, Mrs. Luciana Queirolo has assigned the First, the Second and the Third prize of the Helen Bonsai Club Giareda 2010 and the "IBS plate for best suiseki" mentioning in addition three suiseki particularly meritorious.

On Sunday September 4th there has been the meeting among participants and the public for the comment about the evaluation on which is based the assignement of the awards; the comment will be published in the A.I.A.S. Newsletter next mailing.

The awarded suiseki

1° Prize
assigned to a stone of Mr. Ulisse Maccaferri

2° Prize

assigned to Genova Bonsai Club

3° Prize

"Geisha"

I.B.S. Plate

assigned to Genova Bonsai Club

Three exemplars with particular aesthetic qualities

Mention of Merit

The other suiseki in display

A stone unfortunately drasticalli cut

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The Convention EBA & ESA 2010

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June 11th-13th 2010 , Zurich (Swiss) Convention EBA & ESA
report by A.I.A.S. President Mrs. Luciana Queirolo

In the days 11th,12th and 13th June 2010 has been held in Swiss, in the premises of the Design Museum of Zurich the annual E.B.A. Congress, jointly with the European Suiseki Association Congress.
As assosciate and E.S.A. Board member , as representative of the Italian Association of Suiseki lovers, also associate of E.S.A., I had been informed about the unusual setting which our stones should have had : on isolated columns and without background, precluding every possibility to hang scrools ... an inadeguate scenography which, not leaving space to personal performances should have positively adapted the whole of the exhibition, giving space to the evocative power of the single exemplars displayed.
I could not be present but with two stones of mine, being satisfied to observe from photos what the Italians intervened in Zurich could enjoy "de visu". Suiseki of E.S.A. members have been placed in a small room of reduced dimensions and in case people should have presumed that the black walls should have dissimulated the real dimensions, widing same in the indefinite, on the contrary from the images a sense of waving oppression is evident.
						The only vision which allows the observer diserve a comforting "breath" is the clear niche where the stone of our A.I.A.S. member Mr. Ezio Ferrari "Towards the sky" has been displayed, a stone which we had the chance to admire at the A.I.A.S. Congress 2009 in Lugano.
The sole judge Mr. Willi Benz has assigned the first price to a Furuya stone of Mr. Harald Lehner (from Mr.Arishige Matsuura) and the second place to the "Toyana-ishi" of E.S.A. president in office Mr. Igor Barta.

Kinzan-seki of Mr. Harald Lehner						Toyama-ishi of Mr.Igor Barta
						The A.I.A.S. member Mr. Claudio Nuti has been awarded with the third place with the Chinese object stone, winner of the first price "Object stone category" at the A.I.A.S. Congress 2010 in San Marino.
To the landscape stone of the A.I.A.S. member Mr. Ettore Gardini, UBI prize 2010, has been assigned the BCI Award.
						To the Kinzan-seki of Mr. Harald Lehner has been presented the A.I.A.S. plate delivered by A.I.A.S. Vice President Mr. Marino Nikpal and by Board member Mr. Vito Di Venere.
In addition to the suiseki "Tormenting nostalgia" of Mrs. Luciana Queirolo, A.I.A.S. Trophy 2009 and to the viewing stone of Mr. Enzo Ferrari, the participation of the Italian Exhibitors, members of the A.I.A.S., has been much large as well as the numerical presence of Italian visitors.
The other stones of the partecipating A.I.A.S. members.

Mr. Amedeo Ducoli						Mr. Amedeo Ducoli

Mr. Angelo Attinà						Mr. Angelo Attinà

Mr. Sergio Bassi						Mr. Giuseppe De Vita

Mr. Giuseppe De Vita						Mr. Vito Di Venere

Mr. Marino Nikpal						Mrs. Luciana Queirolo

"The Wave" , of Mr. Jesús Quintas						"Iwojima", lake stone of Mr. Jesús Quintas
Mr. Jesus Quintas, A.I.A.S. member and E.S.A. Board member, reports : "For the next year the Congress will take place in Dusseldorf (Germany) from Septeber 30th to October 2nd in a large structure while for the 2012 in Slovenia around May-June. Always in 2011 an International Exhibition of Bonsai and Suiseki will be held in Praga around Ma-June."
A section of the exhibition has been reserved exclusively to some meiseki of Mr. Martin Pauli collection, known expert who attended as Judge in 2009 A.I.A.S. Congress of Lugano.

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5th Trophy Town of Poppi: report of Mr.Carlo Laghi

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Poppi, June 19^th- 20^th 2010

5th BONSAI & SUISEKI TROPHY

“Town of Poppi”

Report by Mr. Carlo Laghi

On 19th and 20th June 2010, various Bonsai and Suiseki lovers, included myself, coming from Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio and Emilia Romagna, have found themselves in Pioppi on occasion of the 5th Bonsai and Suiseki Trophy "City of Poppi" .

Thanks to the friend and organizer Mr. Andrea Benevieri, in 2010 the location of the exhibition has passed inside : this year novelty is the staging in the inside rooms of the Giorgi Palace , kindly put at disposal by the municipality of Poppi (did you know that Poppi is included in the list of the "Best villages of Italy" ?)

The site of Conti Guidi Castle was and remains a more intriguing location for bonsai and suiseki exhibition, but do you believe that for three consecutive years at middle June in Pioppi has rained and so much ?

Let us come to the real exhibition.

Have been presente stone which the Judge Mr. Fabrizio Buccini has awarded, mentioned and discussed with their owners.
For the suiseki 2 plates have been put at disposal such as "Best Suiseki" and 3 plates as "Mention of merit"

Then there has also been a sort of twinning between the Bonsai Club City of Pioppi and the Bonsai and Suiseki Club of Forlì and I have been called to deliver , as Club Representative, the prize put ad disposal and assigned by the members of the Forlì Club.

Another point of prideis to have involved in the suiseki art two friends of Rimini, soon becoming A.I.A.S. members.

And now the winners :

Best suiseki : "Without time" of Mr. Attilio Valdifiori
Best suiseki : "The time,...sun, water and wind" by Mr. Ettore Gardini
Mention : "Summits over the hills" by Mr. Remo Cavalli
Mention : "I bend down to you" by Mr. Sergio Bassi
Mention: "The destination of the wind" of Mr. Claudio Nuti
"Award of Bonsai and Suiseki " Club Forlì - landscape in a suiban of Mrs. Cinzia Battignani

As duty report the plants have been judged awarded and discussed by Mr. Giorgio Castagneri, the demos on the plants by Mr. Mario Pavone and Mr. Giorgio Castagneri

The plates for "Best suiseki" have been assigned to :


"Without time" by Mr. Attilio Valdifiori	"The time,...sun, water and wind" by Mr. Ettore Gardini

The three "Mention of merit" have been assigned to :


"I bend down to you " by Mr. Sergio Bassi	"Summits over the hills" by Mr. Remo Cavalli	"The destination of the wind " by Mr. Claudio Nuti

The award of the Forlì Bonsai and Suiseki Club has bee assigned to :

Landscape in suiban

by Mrs. Cinzia Batignani

The other stones in display :

Biseki stone

by Mrs.Cinzia Batignani

Lake stone

by Mr. Fabrizio Buccini

Landscape stone

by Mr. Carlo Galli

Landscape stone

by Mr. Carlo Galli

"The family"

by Mr. Carlo Galli

"To the origins"

by Mr. Carlo Laghi

"Horizons"

by Mr. Carlo Laghi

"Perfume wind in your valleys"

by Mr. Claudio Nuti

Landscape stone

of Mr. Cristiano Rosadini

Mr. Cristiano Rosadini

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The XIV U.B.I. Congress

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San Marino Republic, April 16th-18th 2010

XIV National U.B.I. Congress

A considereble increment in the participation of suiseki has marked this edition of the National U.B.I. Congress: in fact, well 26 stones have been presented in the contest, evidence of an increasing interest of U.B.I. members for the suiseki.

Mr. Andrea Schenone, I.B.S. instructor, has this year been the judg who has displayed out of contest a Kikka seki of chinese origin.

Mr. Ezio Piovanelli , I.B.S. instructor, has been entrusted by the U.B.I. to comment the displayed stones

The U.B.I. has received the desidered, official acknowledgement of the sponsorship of the Ministery for the Properties and Cultural Activity with the "Prize -giving of the Ministery for Properties and Cultural Activity of the Italian Republic" and of the Award of the San Marino State Secretary for the Culture.

To underline the great success of this event's edition, the UBI Board has decided to admit in the Catalogue , for this year, all displayed stones.

In addition to the U.B.I. awarding, the A.I.A.S. and I.B.S. plates have also been granted by judges Mr. Marino Nikpal, U.B.I. Vice President and I.B.S. instructor and by Mr. Angelo Attinà, I.B.S. instructor.

Suiseki in exhibition :

Out of contest

Mr. Andrea Schenone

U.B.I. Suiseki Award 2010

Mr. Ettore Gardini


U.B.I. Mention of Merit Mrs. Luciana Queirolo		U.B.I. Mention of Merit Mrs. Daniela Schifano


I.B.S. Plate Mr. Claudio Villa	A.I.A.S. Plate Mr. Cesare Fumagalli


Mr. Domenico Abate	Mr. Lorenzo Agnoletti


Mr. Angelo Attinà	Mr. Paolo Bonaiuto


Mr. Gianni Bonato	Mr. Antonio Conte


Mr. Giuseppe Cordone	Mr. Giuseppe De Vita


Mr. Vito Di Venere	Mr. Enzo Ferrari


Mr. Carlo Laghi	Mr. Cosimo Loparco


Mr. Luigi Maggioni	Mrs. Elvira Manuti


Mr. Geppino Mauriello	Mr. Claudio Pecol


Mr. Gianni Picella	Mr. Ezio Piovanelli


Mr. Lorenzo Sonzini	Mr. Mauro Stemberger

Mrs. Grifa Tarluttini

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Images on XV° I.B.S. NATIONAL CONGRESS

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April 20th - May 2nd 2010

Arco di Trento

Town Casinò Convention Centre

XV NATIONAL I.B.S. CONGRESS

The staff of the Arco Bonsai Club, guided by the overflowing (in liking and organazing ability) of the twentyfive years President Mr. Gabriele Sbaraini, has this year granted us three very nice days , full of flowers, colors, bonsai & suiseki in exhibition, friendship, libations and show.

Yes, the organizing machine has operated as ever in an impeccable conduct.

In exhibition , the stones of six I.B.S. Instructors : Mr. Angelo Attinà, Mr. Massimo Bandera , Mrs. Chiara Padrini, Mr. Ezio Piovanelli, Mrs.Luciana Queirolo , Mr. Andrea Schenone.
Three the awards granted :
to "The plateau of the solitary hills" by Mrs. Luciana Queirolo, a stratified Ligurian palombino compared with similar material of chinese origin, has received : "The Fuji Sato Trophy as best suiseki " and "The BCI Recognition Award as best suiseki of the XV IBS Congress".
to the object human shaped stone of Mr. Angelo Attinà "The BCI Recognition Award as best suiseki of the XXV Arcobonsai".

The images of the I.B.S. Instructors' stones :