Disney. L’arte di raccontare storie senza tempo

Telling timeless stories while succeeding in enchanting the audience is considered a true art, but behind the typical immediacy of the perfect artistic result lies-as is often the case in the art world-a years-long creative research work, generally unknown to those who hear these stories.

The exhibition, promoted and produced by 24 ORE Cultura-Gruppo 24 ORE, curated by the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, with the collaboration of Federico Fiecconi, historian and critic of comics and animation cinema, tells the story of Walt Disney, a pioneer in the art of animation, and his most famous characters to adults and children alike.

The exhibition features valuable original works from the Disney Archives of these immortal feature films and other celebrated Walt Disney Animation Studios films, including Hercules, and The Little Mermaid, up to the most recent animated film Frozen 2 – The Secret of Arendelle, created by a new generation of artists and filmmakers still deeply inspired by Walt Disney’s legacy.

The itinerary tells the visitor about Walt Disney’s masterpieces by tracing the stories back to the ancient matrices of epic tradition: these are the myths, medieval legends and folklore, fairy tales and fables that have constituted the archetypal narrative heritage of the world’s different cultures for centuries, a true melting pot between different continents. These are also the thematic sections of the exhibition, in which the most famous stories from which Disney films were made are placed and are presented in a narrative key through the display of preparatory sketches of creative research, focused on the exploration of characters, settings and narrative plots.