The word ‘mouse’ and ‘juggernaut’ are not usually used in the same sentence, but there is one that defies diminutive description, and, indeed, is a colossal figure: Mickey Mouse.
And so, it is apt that a new exhibition in New York City celebrating the iconic character’s 90th anniversary is large as well: 16,000 square feet and ten rooms. ‘Mickey: The True Original Exhibition’ has the warmth of nostalgia coupled with fresh artistic takes on a cartoon character that has become one of the most recognized symbols – the three black overlapping circles of his head – around the world.
The rooms offer parts of Mickey’s history mixed with new artwork, and also trace his development from a black-and-white cartoon character in his first film ‘Plane Crazy’ to the color of his first feature-length film ‘Fantasia.’ There are also opportunities for visitors to play and engage: listen to music specifically created for a piece of art that has a giant white Mickey seemingly jutting from the wall, watch snippets of classic films, drink in the many iterations and interpretations, including a Keith Haring piece, of the character that spans genres, and stand in the Day-Glo fantasy that is Kenny Scharf’s 'Cosmic Cavern.'
‘There’s a unique dialogue between really incredible archival moments… and then tremendous contemporary art moments from artists who are true originals in their own right,’ Curator Darren Romanelli said before DailyMail.com and other publications took a recent tour of the exhibition on 10th Avenue in Chelsea.
It is about ‘reconnecting with old Mickey memories and making new ones,’ said Romanelli, a designer who was wearing a lab coat, which was populated with Mickey Mouse images culled from old bed sheets and vintage t-shirts, that he made.
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A new large exhibition in New York City celebrates Mickey Mouse's 90th anniversary. The exhibition is a homecoming of sorts for Mickey, whose third film, ‘Steamboat Willie,’ premiered at what was then the Colony Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1928 - it is from this date that 90 years is being marked. One of the first cartoons to use synchronized sound and music, the film would make Mickey a star. Above, neon Mickeys and Minnie Mouses in reddish orange, blue and white are a part of Jeff Shelly's 'On Model: Mickey's Personality'
Pictured above is a still from the film the 1929's 'The Karnival Kid,' and Mickey Mouse is selling hot dogs. It is the first film that Mickey speaks in and his sweetheart Minnie Mouse is also featured. For a new exhibition celebrating the iconic character's 90th milestone, artists were asked to reimagine Mickey. In Katherine Bernhardt’s mural, called ‘99Cent Hot Dog,’ the frankfurter with mustard plays a predominant role
Katherine Bernhardt’s mural, called ‘99Cent Hot Dog, (pictured), is one of the many new pieces of art commissioned for a large exhibition commemorating the 90th anniversary of Mickey Mouse. The exhibition is 'a unique dialogue between really incredible archival moments… and then tremendous contemporary art moments from artists who are true originals in their own right,’ Darren Romanelli, the curator, said
A room in the exhibition, called Sorcerer’s Way, features the classic 1940 film 'Fantasia,' and a still from the film is pictured above. In the feature-length movie, which is set to classical music, Mickey plays while the sorcerer is away. In the exhibition room, two wells show some of the original pencil sketches - taken out of the archives for the first time and that were animated - from the film
Daniel Arsham's ‘Hiding Mickey’ (pictured) ‘celebrates Mickey’s timeless form in his signature renowned style of stretching figures along the wall,’ Darren Romanelli, the curator, said. ‘It’s giant, it’s so big and it’s coming out of the wall. So architecturally, he’s playing with space – something so iconic as a mouse behind the wall’
The exhibition is a homecoming of sorts for Mickey, whose third film, ‘Steamboat Willie,’ premiered at what was then the Colony Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1928 - it is from this date that 90 years is being marked. One of the first cartoons to use synchronized sound and music, the film would make Mickey a star. One of the first rooms of the exhibition pays homage to that film, which also featured Mickey’s sweetheart Minnie Mouse. A big steamboat takes center stage and comes equipped with a functioning ship’s wheel that can be whirled. Nearby is Steamboat Redux, which has two screens. One, on the left shows the original film, and, the other, on the right, shows artists reimagining its scenes.
‘Took the original Steamboat Willie short, we chopped it up in about 35 scenes and we asked each animator or artist to be as graphically interpretative as they could,’ explained John T. Quinn, who produced and directed the Redux. ‘We used the original soundtrack, the original layout so that the film continuity holds together.’
Quinn told DailyMail.com that it took about two and a half years to do the film, and many animators wanted the famous scene where Mickey is whistling. Included in the Redux film, he said, are many different types of animation: stop motion, hand-drawn on paper and computer, and CG or computer-generated.
Ever since he was a kid, Quinn said he wanted to work for Disney as an artist, and now that he does, ‘it’s really a dream come true. I know that’s corny but it’s really the truth. I get to do what I love with characters that I love every day.’
Opposite Steamboat Redux on the other side of the room is a painting by Ariana Papademetropoulous called ‘My Mother’s Bedroom in 1979.’ She explained that she painted a new photograph of the bedroom – it hasn’t changed at all – that features a ceramic figurine of Mickey Mouse on her mom’s bedside table.
Growing up, Papademetropoulous said she was ‘very much into Mickey Mouse’ and drew him often.
‘Disney and Disneyland has been like a huge inspiration to my work. I use it a reference a lot in my work because it kind of embodies LA in many ways,’ she said, who lives in Los Angeles, and adding that she was so obsessed with Disney she considered working there as a princess - Snow White - for one of her first jobs.
Superimposed on the bedroom scene is a shadow of the forest, she said, which adds a ‘little bit of darkness and mystery, which is a lot of what Disney is to me – it’s the light and dark and mystery.’
Near Papademetropoulous’ piece is Katherine Bernhardt’s mural called ‘99Cent Hot Dog.’
‘It features Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and hot dogs with mustard,’ Bernhardt said. ‘I did that because I like humor in art and I think hot dogs are funny.’
Bernhardt usually does paintings but was excited to do a mural, which was painted directly on the wall using house paint.
Katherine Bernhardt (pictured) stands in front of her mural called ‘99Cent Hot Dog.’ Using house paint, Bernhardt painted directly on the wall, and said the mural features Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and hot dogs with mustard. ‘I did that because I like humor in art and I think hot dogs are funny,’ Bernhardt told DailyMail.com
Curator Darren Romanelli (pictured) also created a piece for the exhibition, titled ‘3000% Be@rbrick.’ Romanelli is also a designer who takes vintage pieces that he reappropriates for his clothing line. For the exhibition, he said he ‘collected hundreds and hundreds of shirts over the years and I recycled and reconstructed about 200 of them into a giant-sized bearbrick.’ A Japanese company called Medicom, he explained, makes the collectible bear that is called bearbrick (left)
Shinique Smith (pictured) stands in front of her piece called ‘Bale Variant No. 0026, (Ode to Mickey Mouse, My First Love).’ Smith said Mickey was important to her growing up and told DailyMail.com she is a 'Disney girl.' Smith said her piece is comprised of Mickey Mouse plush toys throughout the ages. She explained that after accumulating all the dolls, she 'worked with a wooden frame... and in that way, I can lay out all the different panels side by side and compose it like I would a painting or a collage. There’s a composition and then that composition becomes three-dimensional'
An archival image of Walt Disney (pictured) and many Mickey Mouse dolls. In one of the new exhibition's first rooms - called Hello Mickey! - is a wall-sized photo of Disney with a Mickey doll. In front of the photo, encased in glass is an honorary Oscar Disney was awarded in 1932 for the creation of Mickey Mouse
Opposite Bernhardt's mural are numerous neon Mickeys and Minnies in reddish orange and blue and white, complete with hearts. The last item of note in the room - called Hello Mickey! - is a wall-sized photo of Walt Disney with a Mickey Mouse doll. In front of the photo, encased in glass is an honorary Oscar Disney was awarded in 1932 for the creation of Mickey Mouse.
Next up are rooms in black and white that feature Mickey’s first film, ‘Plane Crazy,’ and the artwork of Daniel Arsham called ‘Hiding Mickey’ – the large white Mickey that seems to be bulging out of the wall.
Arsham ‘celebrates Mickey’s timeless form in his signature renowned style of stretching figures along the wall,’ Romanelli told DailyMail.com in an interview. ‘It’s giant, it’s so big and it’s coming out of the wall. So architecturally, he’s playing with space – something so iconic as a mouse behind the wall.’
Singer and songwriter James Fauntleroy created a song to accompany Arsham’s installation, Romanelli said, and visitors have the option of putting on the headphones and ‘getting a bit lost in the audio file as well as the visual experience or just taking it in visually.’
Ariana Papademetropoulous (pictured) stands next to her painting called ‘My Mother’s Bedroom in 1979' that features a ceramic figurine of Mickey Mouse on her mom’s bedside table. Growing up, Papademetropoulous said she was ‘very much into Mickey Mouse’ and drew him often
There is fun to be had in the ‘Fantasia’ room, which is called Sorcerer’s Way: look into the two wells and there are the original pencil sketches for the 1940 film, which is set to classical music and is about Mickey playing while the sorcerer is away. The sketches are out of the archives for the first time and were animated. A giant replica of the sorcerer hat that Mickey puts on during the film and where people can stand under is one of the many photo opportunities throughout the exhibition.
After indulging in brooms and wizard’s caps, the next room has a different type of nostalgia to luxuriate in: the Mickey Mouse Club. The show has gone through many iterations, and, depending on your age, a visitor may yearn for Annette Funicello, part of the original show from the 1950s, or the many stars - Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Keri Russell and Ryan Gosling – from the All-New Mickey Mouse Club that started airing in 1989 until 1994.
Romanelli, the curator, said: ‘Those were such important years, you know, being a teenager and not wanting to grow out of being a kid but also wanting to.’
He laughed and added: ‘It was definitely an important chapter for me. We have a Mickey Mouse Club room where we recreated the 90s set to a tee so for anybody in my age demo that walks in that room, it should resonate.’
Monitors placed around the set show a young Spears and Timberlake singing and dancing their out heart.
Also in that room is an intriguing artwork by Brian Bress. Romanelli explained that Bress drew Mickey Mouse 2,000 times, then built a suit for himself covered in those drawings. The video, titled ‘Exactly (Mickey Mouse),’ shows a white piece of paper drawn with black and white Mickey figures. Bress, who is dressed in a suit that matches that foreground, cuts pieces out of it, revealing him in the background. It is artwork that is ever shifting and constantly changing.
Pictured above is Keith Haring's 1981 'Untitled (Mickey Mouse).' Haring, who died in 1990, is known for his pop art that included chalk outlines drawn on New York City subways. Next to his work, but not shown, are several photographs of Haring taken by Tseng Kwong Chi, who chronicled the art scene in New York City in the 1980s
London Kaye's 'Supersonic Skein' is in an exhibition room called Burst in Color. Kaye often works outdoors, thus the use of the chain link fence to display her piece. Guides at the exhibition told DailyMail.com that Kaye crocheted the background blindfolded
Kenny Scharf is a well-known artist who has been creating what he calls Cosmic Caverns since the 1980s, and was a former roommate of Keith Haring, whose work is also in the exhibition. For the exhibition, he was asked to create one of his 'Cosmic Cavern' (pictured) that focused on the timepiece, said Darren Romanelli, the curator of the exhibition. Inside the cavern filled with clocks and TV sets and toys, an explosion of color – bright reds and oranges and greens – greet the eye while music blasts
For the exhibition, the Mickey Mouse Club set was recreated, Darren Romanelli, the curator, explained. The show has gone through many iterations, and, depending on your age, a visitor may yearn for Annette Funicello, part of the original show from the 1950s, or the many stars - Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Keri Russell and Ryan Gosling – from the All-New Mickey Mouse Club that started airing in 1989 until 1994
There is fun to be had in the ‘Fantasia’ room, which is called Sorcerer’s Way. A giant replica of the sorcerer hat (pictured) that Mickey puts on during the 1940 film and where people can stand under is one of the many photo opportunities throughout the exhibition
Romanelli, who also designs clothes, also created a piece for the exhibition, titled ‘3000% Be@rbrick.’ Romanelli, who goes thrift shops often, takes vintage pieces that he reappropriates for his clothing line. For the exhibition, he said he ‘collected hundreds and hundreds of shirts over the years and I recycled and reconstructed about 200 of them into a giant-sized bearbrick.’
A Japanese company called Medicom, he explained, makes the collectible bear that is called bearbrick.
‘Some people don’t even call them toys, there just like these mini collectible sculptures,’ he said. ‘It’s very rare to see one so big that’s eight feet tall and this will be one of a kind.’
‘It’s a nice moment because, I think from my perspective, it’s in the Collection Room, which will also showcase archives.’
Also in the Collection Room, which has a plethora of vintage toys, books, telephones, watches and other items, is Shinique Smith’s ‘Bale Variant No. 0026, (Ode to Mickey Mouse, My First Love).’
‘When I was asked to do this project and to work with the Mickey Mouse icon, I said yes. I didn’t really hesitate because it reminded me how important Mickey Mouse was as icon to me growing up,’ Smith told DailyMail.com.
Smith noted that in the room was a Mickey Mouse electric toothbrush, which was her first one when she was a child.
‘Mickey was with me when I learned to brush my teeth,’ she recalled. ‘You forgot that it’s kind of been in the background this little thread of joy, this voice of positivity throughout your life at different points. I admit it, I’m a Disney girl. I’ve long been inspired by it.’
Her piece is a towering mountain of Mickey Mouse plush toys throughout the ages. She explained how she put together the piece after accumulating all the dolls: ‘So I worked with a wooden frame so it’s hollow inside and in that way, I can lay out all the different panels side by side and compose it like I would a painting or a collage. There’s a composition and then that composition becomes three-dimensional.’
Romanelli, whose marketing agency StreetVirus has worked with Disney for 15 years, said it took about a year and a half to plan the exhibition. They selected artists, he said, and then ‘sent out a number of invitations to these artists where we said we’re working on something special.’
‘We were little mysterious, which we liked.’
One they figured out how the exhibition would unfold with the different rooms, they went back to the artists and asked them to create something site specific, he explained.
‘So we selected those artists to specifically - in direct dialogue with their archive pieces - create something contemporary.’
Kenny Scharf - a well-known artist who has been creating what are called Cosmic Caverns since the 1980s and a former roommate of Keith Haring, whose work is also in the exhibition – was asked to create a cavern that focused on the timepiece or watch, Romanelli said.
Inside the 'Cosmic Cavern' filled with clocks and TV sets and toys, an explosion of color – bright reds and oranges and greens – greet the eye while music blasts, such as Diana Rose and the Supremes’ ‘Reflections,’ from the speakers. Romanelli said the since it is the 90th anniversary, the clocks are set to nine.
‘It’s fun. It’s also great because he’s such a legend,’ he said. ‘To have somebody anchor such an important moment in New York City was great. Kenny’s been doing these caverns since the 80s. To have one of these end up just down the street from his original studio in Chelsea is so cool.’
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