EXHIBITIONS
Exhibitions 2010
June 4, 2010 to January 30, 2011
In the Jungle
An
Exhibition for Children
Dark, green and impenetrable,
wild and dangerous, a world with laws all its own – that’s how we
imagine the jungle even though most of us have never been there. How
come we have such strong images of something we aren’t even acquainted
with? Where do these images come from? And what do they mean?
Everyone
knows Tarzan’s AAA-EEE-AAA-EEE-AAA cry. Or from the JUNGLE BOOK, Kaa
the Snake with his mesmerizing “Trust in me”, Bagheera the Black
Panther and Mowgli. Then there are the animals in the film MADAGASCAR,
and how they escape from the zoo and learn to survive in the jungle
again. And on German television, the heroes of the series HEXE LILLI and
DREI DSCHUNGELDETEKTIVE all battle the dangers of the jungle.
Yet
the exhibition has no intention of focusing just on the legends and
tales of the jungle that have been told in moving pictures, but also on
the fascinating images that wildlife filmmakers have brought back with
them from the jungle. Last but not least, we want to explore the
following questions: Where can we discover the jungle in our cities?
Where do we encounter the jungle in everyday life? And why are we
destroying the rainforest when it is so vital to our survival?
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