TAIGA BEZDĚZSKAJA / exhibition
Divus
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13.12.2012
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26.01.2013
The existence of a taiga in Northern Bohemia between Mimoň and Doksy is not a fiction, but a standard scientific fact. This exhibition is dedicated to science bordering on art.
The title of the exhibition is not only a reminiscence of the twenty-year long stay of Soviet troops in the area north of Bezděz (although messages written in Cyrillic can be found everywhere in the area), it deserves a more detailed explanation: Taiga is a wholly specific type of landscape, covering the entire area ranging from Scandinavia all the way to Siberia. On the territory of what is today the Czech Republic, there used to be taiga as well, soon after the Ice Age, but it disappeared already during the several thousand years that followed. With one exception: the relatively small area delimited by Doksy, Česká Lípa, Stráž pod Ralskem, and Bakov and dominated by the well-known silhouette of the Bezděz castle with its two towers.
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