Nguồn: Tạp chí Bonsai Focus English Edition T9/T10 2016
Dịch và biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh (14/08/2021)
English
Revival of Ginkgo… The amazing Ginkgo Show comes back to life
The best bonsai were always shown at the Ginkgo Awards. A decade of impressive shows that started in 1997 made bonsai in Europe develop with a spectacular leap forward. Bonsai history was made. A reunion show on 28th May brought back good memories
- Text and photography: Bonsai Focus Studio
Old times came back to life. The Gingko Bonsai Center held a big reunion show for just one day last May. Many of the trees which could once be admired at one of the six Ginkgo Bonsai Awards were back on display again. It was as though things hadn’t changed since the last Ginkgo Show was held in 2007. This time, though, there were some great new experimental displays initiated by Danny Use. For this special occasion, trees were set before large photo prints of assorted landscapes making the trees absorb the atmosphere of the photographs. A selection of the ‘Kei Bonsai Kai’ club’s trees were used in Danny’s inventive landscape creations that depicted mountainous and coastal scenes. All the trees and displays were very well set up. It was an amazing show and memories of those good old days lingered in your head. Hopefully, we can enjoy more of such shows at the Ginkgo Bonsai Center soon.
Bonsai were all from the collections of Hans van Meer, Carlos van der Vaart, T.J. Klein, John Hanby, Frédéric Chenal, Jean Paul Polmans, Christophe Richy, Peter Foele, and last, but not least, Danny Use himself. The members of the Kai Bonsai Kai club supported by giving their private time to build the display settings and they supplied their share of trees, too.