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BCI Excellence Award at the 30th Arcobonsai in Italy

By Massimo Bandera, Italy
n May, the annual event Arcobonsai and Arcofiori
in Arco, Trentino, organized by Arcobonsai Club
Icelebrated its 30th year, an event, the organizers
have called “The Europe of Bonsai in Arco” and, in
collaboration with the Board of the European Bonsai
Association, have called on the 19 countries belong-
ing to the association to send two representatives to
Arco to compete in yamadori styling for the trophy
Euro Arcobonsai.
Italy, represented by Salvatore Liporace, was joined
by eight other countries, namely, France, Monaco,
Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and
Switzerland. The representatives from Switzerland
unfortunately did not show up but the other repre-
sentatives competed in a contest that was a showcase
of talent.
The representatives from Slovenia won the com-
petition with a striking and technically interesting
composition. The program also included a contest of
twenty Italian clubs and, among these, the fourteenth
Arcobonsai Trophy was awarded to Giardino delle
Nove Nebbie di Udine.
On Saturday and Sunday, the instructors, previ-
ous winners of the trophy and the founders of five of
the Italian Bonsai Schools, demonstrated their high
professionalism in styling trees, during which they
provided to the audience all technical and artistic ele-
ments related to the material being processed. Also Top inset and above; Sandro Segneri receives the BCI Excellence
for the technical and artistic component, instructors Award for his Pinus mugo from BCI Director Massimo Bandera
Carlo Cipollini and Adriani Bonini, designed plants
proposed by convention participants.
The cultural component was guaranteed by the
reports from professor Augusto Marchesini, Luca
Bragazzi, Massimo Bandera, Silvia Orsi and Andrea
Schenone. The latter has also presented a solo exhibi-
tion of his suiseki collection, surely one of the leading Inset; Massimo
receives the
and most interesting in Italy. Another solo exhibition Carlo Oddone
was staged by Tanaka Shozo which Arcobonsai want- Certificate.
ed to pay tribute as he had set up, with Carlo Oddone, Bottom; Massi-
the first exhibition of bonsai in Arco in 1985. mo Bandera’s
The conference began with the commemoration Tokonoma
of Charles Oddone, who died early this year. He was Display in the
Arcobonsai
Honorary President of Arcobonsai, founder and in- exhibit.
spirer of the Club and the Congress. To remember

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