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Crespi Cup 2010

 

Crespi Bonsai Cup 2010 17th to 19th September

All collectors and professionals-experts who can present a bonsai of high quality can take part to the Crespi Bonsai Cup 2010. Everyone of them can exhibit just one tree and be present as individual participant or as a member of a club and/or association, school.
The Crespi Bonsai Cup 2010 prize consists of:
a voucher for the amount of 5.000,00 € for purchases in the Crespi Bonsai shop; the Crespi Bonsai Cup; a page on the Italian magazine "Bonsai & news" will be dedicated to the winner and to his/her exhibited bonsai.
Kaneko Memory Cup.

Regulation

The participation in the Crespi Bonsai Cup competition is only at invitation and it will not be necessary to send a photo of your own trees for the selection.
The invitation will be directly sent by the organizers to professionals-experts and collectors of high level, by post or by e-mail.
The people invited have to entrust their bonsai to the exhibition place (Crespi Bonsai, Corso Sempione 35, 20015 Parabiago, Milan, Italy), from 12th to 16th September 2010, during the working hours (from 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 2.30 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.; Sunday: from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.; Monday: from 2.30 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.).
The bonsai will be displayed without any owner's reference.
A jury consisting of international experts will select the most beautiful bonsai, whose owner receives as a prize a voucher for the amount of 5.000,00 € for purchases in the Crespi Bonsai shop, as well as the prestigious Crespi Bonsai Cup.
A board of international experts will select the most beautiful bonsai also for naturalness and artistic quality, in order to award the Kaneko Memory Cup prize.
Crespi Bonsai will make any effort to maintain the entrusted trees in healthy conditions.
The participation in the exhibition is absolutely free of charge.

Aut. Min. Req.

To receive the invitation

Are you a collector or professional and do you wish to be invited? Send an e-mail to crespicup@crespibonsai.it


For information

CRESPI BONSAI - Corso Sempione, 35 - 20015 Parabiago (Mi) ITALY
Tel. 0039 0331 491850 Fax 0039 0331 559410

crespicup@crespibonsai.it

 

Under the patronage of

Consolato Generale del Giappone

Istituto Giapponese di Cultura

Nippon Bonsai Sakka Kyookai Europe

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Sakka Kyookai Europe

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Special guests

Kentaro Shino at the age of 18, after the high school, he started the usual 5 year apprenticeship with a bonsai master and at the age of 24 he founded his own garden, the Tamaju-en. Last year one of his masterpieces, a Camellia, gained the Kokufu Exhibition prize, being the first Camellia bonsai that received the prize, in 83 editions!

Masakuni Kawasumi III took over the chair of the famous bonsai tool factory after his father’s death in 2002. Among his last recognitions the Grand Prize given by the Kawaguchi City Industrial Engineers and Technicians Association in 1998 and, in the same year, the official appointment as Tree Doctor obtained by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

Nobuyuki Kajiwara has been teaching bonsai art in Italy at the Crespi Bonsai University since its establishment in 1992 and he takes care of the development of the Crespi Bonsai Museum masterpieces. He regularly gives lectures and courses in various European and non-European countries, where he also takes care of important bonsai collections. His sensible approach to bonsai trees is the result of the long experience gained in different geographic conditions and of his great respect for nature.

Willi Benz has played a major part in popularizing the art of suiseki in his native Germany and throughout Europe. He established the German Suiseki Society and the German Bonsai Club. In addition, he is member of Bonsai Club International - proving his devotion to yet another popular Oriental art. He wrote a number of books about suiseki and bonsai. He gives many conferences all over the world.

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