New Aardman Art exhibit running through August 30 at the Art Ludique-Le Musée in Paris stars 'Wallace and Gromit,' the fowl of 'Chicken Run,' 'Pirates,' and 'Shaun the Sheep.'
From March 21 through August 30, Wallace and Gromit, the fowl of Chicken Run, Pirates, and Shaun the Sheep will be the stars of the exhibition, “Aardman, Art that takes shape,” at the Paris-based Art Ludique-Le Musée.
Created by the Art Ludique-Le Musée team, in close collaboration with the award-winning creators and producers of the celebrated British studio, this exhibition, a worldwide premiere dedicated to the Art of Aardman, will present over 50 authentic film characters and sets, true masterpieces of sculpture lit by the artists themselves.
From Wallace’s cracking contraptions, passing through Gromit’s famous vegetable garden, to the sets of Shaun the Sheep The Movie, the flying machine from Chicken Run or the fabulous five-meter tall Pirates’ galleon, these spectacular artworks will pay a veritable homage to the artistic genius of the sculptors that animate the clay creatures image by image.
Over 350 concept drawings, character and background studies, watercolors and storyboards will complete this exceptional exhibition, where one can even discover Nick Park’s sketchbook as a student, containing the first drawings of Wallace and Gromit, never before seen by the public.
The exhibition will display numerous screens, allowing visitors to discover as a family the incredible creativity of the studio, through extracts of its most famous films, but also with more than 60 short and feature films, hilarious advertisements, or magical video clips.
After the exhibitions “Pixar, 25 years of animation,” “The Art of Marvel Super Heroes,” ranking in the top 15 most visited exhibitions in France in 2014, and with “Studio Ghibli Layouts Designs,” which is currently enjoying a huge success, the exhibition “Aardman, Art takes shape” will naturally fit into the program of the first museum in the world dedicated to figurative and narrative contemporary art issued from the entertainment industry.
Source: Art Ludique-Le Musée
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
