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    When working on the "Bombe" project, Marta made a full immersion in the fascinating world of elephants. Not only did she read books, watch documentaries, and interview experts from various countries, but, helped by her family and friends, she ended up assembling a heterogeneous iconographic collection witnessing of about 2500 years of elephants-related Western imagination. Such a database of pictures has become the core of an interactive QR codes-based installation Marta has conceived for "An Elephant's Memory // Urban Wilderness."

    Click on the pics to move and enlarge them.

    Elephant and Dragon
    A Flying Elephant Wearing a Top Hat
    Elephant Nails
    Elephant steeplechase at Rangoon
    Elephants ballet
    Flapje
    Tuffi waiting for a ride
    Franz Althoff and Tuffi, 1950
    Palazzo Vitelli
    Communicating With an Elephant
    Tiger Hunting
    Flipje Tiel
    Tuffi after the Fall
    Tuffi pic by the Wuppertal Monorail
    Bombay the elephant
    Medieval Illustration
    The Savant Elephants
    Bombay Dancing
    Les Coulisses de la Féerie
    Bombay Playing Music
    De snijder en de olifant
    Tintin riding an elephant
    At the Zoo
    "E" as Elephant
    Elephant & dog
    Against the Tiger
    The Worshipful Company of Cutlers
    Around the World in Eighty Days
    Elephant toilette
    Elephant's Greetings
    Palazzo Vitelli
    Elephant savings bank
    Elephant at work
    Baby circus elephant
    King George V on elephant back
    Elephant with State Howdah at Baroda
    A Surprise
    Elephant at the zoo in Amsterdam
    Grill house with elephant
    A baby elephant and his mum
    Elephant joins the Charleston
    Capturing Wild Elephants in Ceylon
    London, The Elephant & Castle
    A Window in Mantua
    Capturing Wild Elephants in Ceylon
    Preparing for the journey
    Dutch people with an elephant
    Dutch tile
    Flying elephant
    Elephants on journey, 1954
    Crossing a Gangway
    After the Journey
    Penny Print
    Wedding Elephants
    State Elephant (Benares 1880s)
    Hans and Parkie
    Medieval Elephant With Castle
    Intolerance, 1916
    Jenny
    The Sun and the Moon
    Appian Way
    Elephants on Journey, 1950s
    Elephant Attacked by a Snake
    Eleazar
    The Doge’s Palace
    Notre Dame de Paris
    Charging the enemy
    Elephants in goods van, 1950s
    Shaman Hypnotising an Elephant
    M. Ernst, The Elephant Celebres
    Louis XV
    Babar
    Elephant embroidery
    Just So Stories
    Tiger Hunt
    Sanctuaries
    Circus
    G. Koch (1818-1899), The Circus
    S. Dali, St. Anthony’s Temptation
    In the Menagerie
    Thebes Necropolis
    Dumbo
    Elephant Biking with a Monkey
    British Campaign
    Jumbo
    Tom Raw
    Jumbo
    Engraving by the marquis of Rostaing
    Siege of Paris
    Historiæ animalium
    Exhibiting an Elephant in Venice
    Elephant Hunting
    Map of Oriental Africa
    Hans and Parkie
    Vue de la fontaine de l’éléphant
    Chunee's Brutal Death
    Hanksen by Rembrandt
    Jumbo
    Elephant at the Circus
    An Asian Elephant and His Mahout
    Kubla Kahn
    Hanno
    Hanno
    Clown as Tamer
    Cutler’s Hall in London
    Dutch Children's Story
    Hattie and Bill
    Dutch Tile
    De Gruyter
    Triumphs of Maximilian
    Hattie and Bill
    An Ancient Advertisement
    Hannibal
    Children's Book
    Candlestick
    Cave Paintings
    Jumbo and Oscar Wilde
    Jumbo
    Dutch Children’s Book
    Jumbo
    Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1962
    Fans escort Jumbo to the Docks
    Jumbo at the Theatre Hall
    Trade Card From Jumbo’s "Wife" Alice
    Unknown-8
    Bombe with Santa

    © 2016 Marta Nijhuis 

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