Johnny Depp

JOHNNY DEPP (Owensboro, Kentucky, 1963).
"The Bunnyman," 2023.
Intervened silkscreen with gold leaf, copy 182/295.
Hand signed and numbered.
This work has been donated by Johnny Depp to the NGO Codespa, who will use the funds obtained from the sale to support the project Financial Education and Entrepreneurship Development for People with Disabilities.
Certificate of authenticity attached.
Measurements: 116,5 x 82 cm.

In recent years, the famous film actor Johnny Depp has surprised the public with his facet as a plastic artist, creating portraits of celebrities ("Friends & Heroes") that have reached high prices in the market. At the same time, he has ventured into graphic art through a series of serigraphs intervened by hand. Specifically, in the limited edition silkscreen series "The Bunnyman Genesis" (intervened with golden details) he explores the subconscious through a recurring dream that his son had when he was five years old. Jack, the boy, had drawn the Bunnyman that appeared in his nightmares, and upon seeing it, the father remembered that this disturbing character had also populated his dreams in the past. According to the artist, the Rabbit Man provokes terror but at the same time he can become an invisible friend. This ambivalence is typical of dreams, where nothing is what it seems. Johnny Deep initially captured The Bunnyman on a large canvas, and now he has become a symbol. In the specimen shown here, the golden silhouette of the Bunnyman is silhouetted against a nocturnal landscape in the background of which a fire burns. The image is ominous and suggestive.

Johnny Depp is an American actor, film producer and musician. He has been nominated three times for an Academy Award and received a Golden Globe,1 an Screen Actors Guild Award and a Cesar Award. He began his career in the 1984 horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street" as Glen Lantz, one of Freddy Krueger's victims. Two years later, he had a supporting role in "Platoon" directed by Oliver Stone. Depp starred in the film "Edward Scissorhands," which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination and critical acclaim. He subsequently starred in most of the films he worked on, including Sleepy Hollow (1999), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and its respective sequels, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2008), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and its sequel Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and its sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), among others.