The exhibition project
“Black/White: paradoxical colours” tells about the particular meaning of white
and black colours in nature and human culture, including fashion and optical
laws. The star of the exhibition is the stuffed white lion which was gifted to
the State Darwin Museum in 2017 to mark the 110th anniversary. White
lions are extremely rare in wild nature. The Darwin museum keeps one of the
largest collections of animals with unusual coloration; however there has never
been such a unique item as a white lion.
The exhibition pays a
special attention to black, white and black-white fauna. It displays the best part
of the unique collection of animals with abnormal coloration and supplemented
by fascinating facts about black and white wild animals of our planet.
Since
ancient times, black and white colours have played an important role in the human
culture and fashion. The exhibition is decorated by beautiful attires presented
by the A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum and a bridal salon “To be
Bride”. Another exhibition project named “Two colours. The dialectic of monochrome”, curated by an artist Sergey Yaralov, includes about 100 black, white and
black-white art works created over the last 25 years.