Cartoon Skeletons
From telegraph.co.uk:
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An exhibition at the natural history museum in Basel, Switzerland, imagines what may lie beneath the skins of cartoon characters"
I got to see this exhibition at the Korean stand at last year's Venice Bienale, and it was pretty damn cool. When you're traipsing around for 2 days looking at the collected artwork of 50 countries only the most powerful, thoughtful, funniest, most convincing and complete work sticks with you. This was both convincingly executed and thoughtful, and funny.
I found it kinda nostalgic, like I'd literally dug up the skeletons of all my Sunday afternoons, sitting on the lounge floor watching cartoons; each of these characters made real and at the same time... ridiculed I guess: always stuck in the same pose/expression/action. Like a single character trait will always define them, regardless of whatever else they've done.
Also in the exhibition were more skeletons and skulls of 'future creatures', pondering the nature of evolution.
Donal Duck: Grumpy Motherfucker running off on another one...
Huey, Dewey and Louie
Jerry....
...with Tom, destined to always be chasing him, but never catch him. What a dick...
Didn't Bug Bunny's smugness ever piss you off?
Wile E. Coyote & Roadrunner: I've been watching these again recently, and I still feel this overwhelming desire to see Wile E. catch that bloody Roadrunner and fuck him up something evil, before devouring him. Seriously, he was a clever, cunning li'l fucker, but even the laws of nature conspired to screw him over...






