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Bjørn Nørgaard: Mickey’s Opera, 2005
Mickey’s Opera is a collection of twelve faience figures in clear colours. Their shiny surfaces are covered with different simple patterns and their shapes are simplified and distorted at the same time. Nørgaard’s sculptures send an homage to pop art, that celebrates strong monochrome colours and motives that take their stance in well-known icons or broadly distributed objects. In this instance, the well-known person is Walt Disney’s cartoon character Mickey Mouse, but even though the artwork title places Mickey in the centre, he is not himself present in the group of figures. The opera is constructed in the classical score, where the figures can take shape as each node with their own special expression, but the main character is not present.
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