Disney. L’arte di raccontare storie senza tempo

MUDEC is pleased to host the exhibition “Disney. The art of timeless storytelling “. Enchantment through fantastic tales is a gift as old as humanity, but turning these fascinating journeys into memorable stories requires immense skill. Making a story timeless is an art but behind a perfect artistic result, there is always research work, often unknown to those who hear these stories.

The exhibition aims to tell the public about this creative process, delving into the extraordinary talent of Disney Studios artists in creating timeless masterpieces, from the very first works conceived in the 1930s to the latest, Frozen II. The aim is to tell children and adults how an animated masterpiece is born, the behind-the-scenes, getting to the heart of the studio and artistic production: years of work intended to make thousands of images come to life, to translate them into a film, integrating them with soundtracks entrusted to great composers and become iconic. The great innovative effort of Disney’s artists has always been to adapt stories from popular traditions to film, using techniques and narrative methods that have evolved over time but leaving their original message intact.

Indeed, Walt Disney ‘s merit was precisely this: to have breathed new life into the tales of different traditions, from the classical epic to the fairy tales of Eastern cultures to Kipling, Barrie, and Carroll. Through watching a story everyone is able to enrich his or her heritage of emotions and dreams, confronting reality through identification with the characters. That is why the exhibition proposes an inevitable edutainment approach, involving children and adults from the moment they enter the exhibition.

Through the immortal fascination of Once Upon a Time, the audience crosses a threshold that ushers them into their own personal fantasy dimension, offering them the chance to create their own story from scratch, using the animation techniques told in the exhibition.