Heading towards the exhibition’s star object – Spitzmaus’ coffin – you find yourself in the middle of a vast amount of objects of nature. The selected animal sculptures and paintings are arranged with a specific dramaturgical aim: A cat seems to be running away from three birds of prey. Next to this arrangement, another cat is looking for a prey herself, while a mouse is placed just underneath (swipe through the gallery for the views). And talking about a mouse: The display case in the center shows a little sarcophagus for a Spitzmaus, a shrew. A beautiful IRONY unrolls: While a mouse nowadays is considered a rodent in worst and a cute Disney figure in best case, in past Egyptian times shrews were adored and played an important role in religion, as this little sarcophagus proves.
Making a mouse the key visual of the exhibition is a wonderfully playful, modest and ironic statement. And simultaneously we are confronted with playful scenes surrounding the coffin imagined by the brand new curators again.
Simplicity is also key when you stroll through other parts of the exhibition: One shows green objects only (what a refreshing idea as a curatorial thread!). Another sticks to wooden objects from the collections. A simple idea, but not naive: The objetcs are put into thought provoking relations just as we’ve experienced it so far.
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