aldo marchese profile

The profile of Aldo Marchese

Suiseki Curriculum
INTRODUCTION: In 2007 I had the good fortune to meet in this world unknown to me, Mrs. Queirolo Luciana (who became my mentor) and since then I have started a course of studies and insights with her that have involved the following issues addressed in a training course in Suiseki, currently in progress:
a) The thematic and recognized classifications of the Viewing Stones translated by me and deepened in derivation organization charts;
b) Gong-Shi and Sui-Seki, derivations, differences and convergences;
c) Yo-Seki and cultivation of stones;
d) Evocative and suggestive aspects.
e) Exhibition and kazari (which in Suiseki I am deepening with the help of J. Quintas).

I have studied the above topics and others in the following literature:
- The art of Suiseki - Covello and Yoshimura (in-depth analysis on video call in 2020 with Mr Covello);
- Suiseki “The Japanese art of miniature landscapes stones “ – Felix G. Rivera;
- Contemporary viewing stones - Tom Elias;
- Kemin Hu- The spirits of Gongshi- chinese schoolar rocks;
- Aesthetics – A. Ricchiari;
- Crisanthemum Stones – Tom Elias;
- AIAS (Italian Association of Suiseki Amateurs) newsletters;
- Asiseki California News;
- Baozang Chinese magazine focused on Viewing stones;
- NSA (Nippon Suiseki Association Exhibition Catalog);
- Kazari (Edoardo Rossi)
- QSEki by Jesus Quintas, of which I am currently lucky enough to follow as a student.

I have published several articles on the website www.aias-suiseki.eu.
- Tianmen - The Gate of Heaven.
- The dark dolomite of Calabria.
- Hokusai's teaching – Enoshima and Mount Fuji.
- The Pietà from Michelangelo to the Stone.
- The green stone of Calabria.
- The Granites of the Sila.
- Dialogues between a pupil and his Master by J. Quintas and A. Marchese
- Introduction to Suiseki; which was also published in the online journal Branch of the IBS;
- Classification of contemplation stones.

I have published two articles in BCI International:
-Introduction to Suiseki year 2022;
- Maternity (forthcoming publication) year 2023

Ordinary member since 1999 for the Bonsai and Suiseki Perla dello Jonio association in Catanzaro, suiseki school trainer;
Ordinary member of Nippon Bonsai Sakka Kyookai Europe (NBSKE) since 2019;
Since 2020 I also have the honor of being:
- Instructor of the National College of Instructors for suiseki -IBS;
- Member of the Governing Council of AIAS with the mandate of head of educational activities; setting myself the goal of divulging this art, with the awareness that there are more truths about it and therefore enriching myself accordingly with this new experience.
My vision of suiseki is: Veneration, admiration and appreciation of nature through the stones it gives us and to experience the beauty of the universe in that microcosm that suiseki represents; at the same time strongly living the intense emotions it gives us for the creation of fantastic images through the mental detachment necessary for the evocation.
With this definition above, I hope to give an answer to the question of one of my teachers, in 2018, at the XXI° AIAS national congress in Florence, he asked all the suisekists present at his Conference "The exhibition of suiseki, between forms , discipline and indulgence of feeling:
if we consider suiseki and obviously its exposition a Japanese practice, or if it can now be considered something universal?”
On the other hand, as he often loves to repeat and remember a phrase of his Sudo Master, "the ideal set-up is the one that shows what is not there. A stone is perhaps the most interesting form of expression of the unsaid" and I add, as in Japan, emotions and feelings in the presence of Nature are Universal in the rest of the world.

PERIOD Exhibition Bonsai and Suiseki RECOGNIZED BY

  • 2010 to 2018 Exhibition and curation in the various biennials - Club Perla dello Jonio Judge for Suiseki Madame Luciana Queirolo
  • 2014 Founding member of Calabria coordination for Bonsai and Suiseki Trainer c/o coordination and club for suiseki
  • 2018 Exhibition at the national exhibition of Cosenza (IT) 1st post for Suiseki judge: Mr Buccini and Galli
  • 2019 AIAS Exhibition - La Sapienza Botanical Garden Congress - Rome Mention of merit - stone to contemplate Judge for suiseki Madame L. Queirolo
  • 2019 Exhibition care and lesson on Suiseki Exhibition of Salice Salentino (LE Italy)
  • 2020 Publication of the AIAS Catalog Stone to be contemplated Munharo' - evaluation Mr Martin Pauli
    2021 National Show XI edition Catanzaro Judge "out of competition" for IBS, AIAS - Conference "introduction to Suiseki"
  • 2021 VSANA International Small Stones Contest World Apart Excellence Award Contemporary stone display Excellent award in contemporary kazari display
  • 2021 Exhibition and Exhibition of the National College of Bonsai and Suiseki Instructors in Rivoli (TO) Judge "out of competition" for IBS in suiseki and Conference "introduction to Suiseki"
  • 2022 National Exhibition XII edition Catanzaro Judge "out of competition" for IBS, AIAS and awards for suiseki - Conference "Stone to be contemplated and Meditation"
  • 2022 XXV edition of the AIAS Exhibition Bondeno (MN) Judge "out of competition" for IBS and Conference "Stone to be contemplated and Meditation"
  • 2022-2023 "Accademia del Suiseki" of Roccavaldina (ME) Instructor for Suiseki for the years 2022/2023
  • 2023 National Show XIII edition Catanzaro Judge "out of competition" for IBS, AIAS and prizes for suiseki