international bonsai-suiseki

CONGRESO INTERNATIONAL BONSAI ,SUISEKI

We visited the "III Congreso Internacional de Mistral Bonsai". The organization team made a big effort to achieve a difficult goal: To please all visitors arrived from anywhere in Europe. This Congress appears more and more strengthened in every issue. For two days we covered the installations, enjoying happenings that followed one another, comprising most of the arts within Japanese culture of which Bonsai and Suiseki were certainly the most significant.

Logically we were interested in Suiseki, and we have to standout the three conferences given by Chiara Padrini "Stones in Italy", "To carve a Dai", and "Stone Histories", we feel still moved by a presentation so descriptive and poetic.

Concerning the Suiseki exposition, it is true that the level is gradually rising, not only in quality but in number of participants. It is not similar to what happens to de jury for the "Olea Award" for Suiseki. We heard comments about the number and skilfulness of the jury.

On the contrary the decision for the "BCI" award to the best Suiseki, was really correct, Congratulations Mr. Rafael Monje. IT WAS THE BEST!