MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture du 09-10-24 - 09/10/2024
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00:00Welcome to Median TV. Actor and musician Johnny Depp is exhibiting his works in New York at an exhibition called Bunch of Stuff, which can be translated as a bunch of things.
00:20The event not only reveals his unknown artistic talent, it also allows visitors to explore in an immersive and intimate way the personal and creative journey of the actor.
00:33Among the highlights of the exhibition, there are black boxes that immerse the spectators in the artistic universe of Johnny Depp.
00:42In parallel, the white box presents 60 works made over the last three decades, thus offering a retrospective of his artistic evolution.
00:53I invite you to listen to Johnny Depp and Anne-Sophie Willemin. She is the artistic advisor of the exhibition.
01:00The idea, I suppose, is to walk through a lot of things that are important, that have been going on for years, and that in the end will be used to paint.
01:13A painting and paintings that will end up in the garage or in any corner of the house. Because I never really intended to show this work. In my mind, it was just for me. And it was especially something I wanted to do.
01:29Johnny Depp has been drawing and painting since he was a teenager. He started when he was a teenager. For him, it was a kind of adaptation mechanism, like an intimate journal.
01:42It is therefore not a new practice. The exhibition tries to recreate this creative process through small islands of history in the exhibition.
01:52And each island corresponds to a certain group of works, a series of paintings, and they are all linked to a certain moment in his life or to a certain experience.
02:02At the age of 61, Johnny Depp has been able to preserve an intact sensitivity by nourishing his work through various artistic mediums.
02:12His raw style allows him to capture the human experience in the present moment.
02:18Most of his works are in paper, and this comes from his habit of holding a journal when he was a teenager.
02:25It is a medium that offers him a lot of spontaneity.
02:28For the varnishing of his exhibition, Johnny Depp has received considerable support from Hollywood, with the presence of personalities such as Matt Damon, Paul Wood and Steven Spielberg.
02:41I suggest you listen to his statements.
02:43My day job was, you know, cinema, making films, acting.
03:14The majority of the works are in paper, and this comes from Johnny Depp's habit of holding a journal when he was a teenager.
03:21It is a medium that offers him a lot of spontaneity.
03:24And I think his work is really characterized by this very spontaneous, unprepared process.
03:31It allows him to deepen his favorite themes, namely humanity, vulnerability, which creates a feeling of authenticity, and paper allows you to do it.
03:54And finally, the electric guitar used by George Harrison at the beginning of the Beatles, called Futurama.
04:03It will be put up for sale at an auction in November, where it could be sold for more than $800,000.
04:09Bought in a music store in Liverpool, the band's hometown,
04:13George Harrison had been playing Futurama guitar at the beginning of the 1960s,
04:18when the band played a tour in Germany at the O'Cavern Club and recorded its first official records for Polydor.
04:27This Futurama guitar, with its sunburst finish, was one of the most played by George Harrison.
04:34Specialists call it the holy grail of the Beatles' historical guitars and say it should exceed $600,000 to $800,000.
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05:31I put my mind to it. I know that I really can do it.
05:37I got my mind set on you. Set on you. I got my mind set on you.