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Top; 3rd winner of the category
Landscape Stones, titled “Help
me to tackle the climb”, origin:
Liguria, Italy, collector: Luciana
Queirolo
Top right; 1st winner of the
category Stones to Admire,
titled “L’urlo del Vento”, origin:
unknown, collection Sergio
Bassi
Middle left; 1st winner of the
category Object Stones: a bird-
shaped stone (pelican), origin:
Italia, collector: Renzo Perfumo
Bottom left; 3rd winner
of the category Biseki, a
Chrysanthemum stone
from Japan, titled “I colori
profumano l’autunno,”
collection Ettore Gardini
Bottom right; 1st winner of the
category Biseki/surface pattern
stones, titled “La magia della
pietra insolita,” origin: Tuscany,
Italy, collector: Giuseppe De
Vita

the annual congress. This year’s annual XX° Congres-
so Nazionale was hosted by “Bonsai Do Groane” and
“Scuola Suiseki Do Groane” and supported by Unione European countries. The display space of 1.80 m wide
Bonsaisti Italiani (UBI) as well as Collegio Nazionale and 90 cm deep was given to each exhibitor who could
Istruttori (IBS). It was held on 7 and 8 October 2017 at decide to exhibit only one big or two smaller suiseki
Palazzo Arese Borromeo in Cesano Maderno (MB), a or a shelf. The background was high enough to hang
small town not too far from Milano, in northern Italy. scrolls. As always, landscape scenic stones (mountain
This year, I was honoured to be invited as a guest, as stones) predominated (29 of 61 single suiseki as well
Giudice Unico or Single Judge, and gave a power point as 7 multi stand with two or three stones). The name
presentation about stone exhibitions in China and Ja- of the owners of the Suiseki were added to the label
pan in 2015 – 2017, as well as, a critique of stones in only after the judging. Arrangements were enhanced
exhibit. with complimentary items, for example accent plants,
In exhibiting their stones, AIAS members are mostly art objects and/or scrolls (kakemono). Generally, har-
following the Japanese Suiseki practice, just like other mony between display items and empty space are most

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