Michele Andolfo | Career
Michele started off as a self-taught bonsai artist in the early 90’s before working in a bonsai nursery near Milan.
In the following years, he participated as a demonstrator at bonsai conventions in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, England and Spain.
Michele is also a regular guest of the Bonsai and Penjing Society of Montreal in Canada.
Today he continues to regularly hold demonstrations and study groups on topics regarding the aesthetics and design applied to bonsai. He is well known for his teaching commitment and his presence as a guest demonstrator in International conventions abroad.
In recent years he has devoted himself mainly to training over 300 students, some of whom have become well-known professionals and instructors.
Since 1995 he has been the Director of the Italian UBI Association for nine years (3 as vice president and foreign representative).
Michele is also the Secretary of the IBS (National Bonsai and Suiseki College), President of the Bonsai Club Martesana for the past eleven years, and currently the director of the Andolfo Bonsai Studio and the IBS didactic committee.
Andolfo Bonsai Studio
In 2001, he started his school Andolfo Bonsai Studio school, planning courses, technical seminars, and study groups in Italy and abroad.
During the European UBI / EBA Congress in 2005, his school was officially recognized by UBI for its didactic commitment throughout Europe.
During the European UBI / EBA Congress in 2005, his school was officially recognized by UBI for its didactic commitment throughout the national territory.
In 2007, on behalf of the Swiss Association of Bonsai VSB, Michele started two study groups in Zurich and five in Italy with more than 100 students.
In 2008 on the occasion of the BCI Congress in Saint Vincent organized by the IBS, in which he is a demonstrator, he inaugurates the new headquarters of the school in Cambiago where he currently works and carries out his teaching activity.
In 2010, his participation in the Congress MABS in the USA laid the foundations for a new chapter of his school, in New York.
In 2015 the Andolfo Bonsai Studio is officially recognized by the National Bonsai and Suiseki Instructor College.
In 2018 his school in Quebec became the Academy (Andolfo Bonsai Academy) with six instructors trained in twelve years of activity.
In 2019 he started a new School project in Colombia with students from various countries in South America.
Publications
Michele publishes technical and aesthetic articles in some of the most important magazines in Italy and abroad.
Michele's works have been published in European, Chinese, and American bonsai books and magazines and he has received many prizes and awards including the prestigious International Award BCI's Artist, Writer, Photographer Award.
In 1999 he published his first book on aesthetics and design applied to Bonsai: Bonsai Culture, Aesthetics, and Project, and four years later BONSAI-Basic course guide was created to introduce bonsai to the less experienced and children.
The following year he became BCI International Instructor and two years later he became awarded the First IBS National Prize "writing bonsai" reserved for National Instructors.
In 2016 he wrote his third book on aesthetics applied to bonsai BONSA Estetica Studio e progetto which summarizes more than 20 years of professional activity in this sector.
Contact
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