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Cabinet of Curiosities
Ah, curiosity, humanity9s oldest peer4an adequate company in the absence of
a better one. As most troublesome thing began, once upon a peculiar time, before
maps were certain and lands were known4when our kind set sail through seas that
hissed and foamed, through mists that smelled of salt and jeopardy. When they
returned4well, those who did4they brought back things.
Not just a handsome share of gold, new-found faith, or a wise man9s advice, but tokens
of discovery4and an insatiable desire to understand them. In an attempt to order
the unknown and bring the vastness of creation within human reach, they placed
their wonders into cabinets4wooden, creaking, secretive things4and called them
Cabinet of Curiosities.
What a sobriquet for such rooms full of portraits of the human mind4
where art and science, belief and doubt, all dissolved into a single, compelling vision
of wonder. These private collections were, in essence, the precursors of modern
museums which seemed almost magical in a time of limited scientific understanding.
Now, centuries later, the cabinet creak open its door again. Within this exhibition,
136 artworks await4each revealing a unique way of seeing, yet all bound by a shared
pursuit of the extraordinary. To acquire one is to continue the story4to build your
own cabinet, where every object you choose and how you arrange it will speak,
quietly but unmistakably, of you.
In the end, the cabinet is only a room
it9s you who fills it.
So, dear collector:
words about our life will end,
but time never lands, love is all that stands.
Life is capricious,
but your Cabinet of Curiosities promised.
