“Welcome to Johnny’s world,” stated a greeter with a chuckle of disbelief.
His incredulity used to be comprehensible. He used to be manning an artwork gallery in Chelsea the place the paintings of Johnny Depp is lately on show.
Deny, now not particular screenings of “Finding Neverland” and “Donnie Brasco” — latest artwork by means of Edward Scissorhands himself.
I laughed too.
How may you now not? The 61-year-old actor’s arrogance bathtub, er, exhibition, which opened Friday on West twenty seventh Boulevard, has a comically large identify: “A Bunch of Stuff.”
Issues for accuracy. Past the painted canvases, the massive field is certainly cluttered with a ton of upchucked knicknacks: emptied Cafe Du Monde espresso cans, typewriters, toy monkeys, a lamp in a wood shoe and pretentious notes written on letterhead from the arena’s most magnificent lodges.
I chuckled at an ashtray that learn “Dinner without wine is like a day without sunshine,” as Depp reportedly spends $30,000 a future on vino unwanted.
You get the distinct — and awkward — sense that the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” superstar feels he’s channelling lavish minds like Dylan Thomas and JD Salinger, whose books are scattered across the room.
His booklet of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Leonardo da Vinci used to be specifically delusional.
However maximum of what’s putting at the partitions is evidently by-product — from Basquiat to a Mexico Town boulevard honest — and provokes refuse reaction more potent than a “yep.”
“Some may call it art, some may not,” reads a message from Depp at the wall. “I call it mine.”
And, you recognize what, that’s enough for the Hollywood superstar’s rabid fanatics, who made up many of the people Friday afternoon.
A couple of Depp-devoted vacationers excitedly sprinted to the Captain Jack Sparrow voodoo doll prop from the 2011 film “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which scored a 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I’m good-looking positive some other guy and girl loudly yelling “F–K!” at 3 p.m. weren’t connoisseurs of H2O colour portraits.
The entire Johnnyphiles indubitably left messages for the actor at the immense paper guest-book wall. One left by means of an individual who wishes a passion stated, “Need you to hold me.”
The primary piece of Depp’s I realized used to be a white rectangle with the Hunter S. Thompson quote “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
Most of the actor’s works are merely framed words, like motivational posters intended for potheads.
Some have been spoken by means of others, however many are philosophical mumbo-jumbo immediately from the superstar of “The Tourist,” comparable to “Close your eyes and look at everything you can’t see.”
However Thompson’s layout used to be the best approach to start, as I had simply spent a jaw-dropping $48 for my price tag to “A Bunch of Stuff.”
The upcoming few artwork have been self-portraits. Surprising, I do know.
There’s 2010s beret-and-sunglasses Depp and a chiseled-jaw “Sleepy Hollow”-era Depp. He additionally depicts his youngsters and a late-in-life Marlon Brando.
Within the upcoming cylindrical room begins a layout of hairless faces that resemble John Malkovich or Tilda Swinton, relying to your temper.
Nearest comes his instead on-the-nose “Death By Confetti” artwork with skeletons drowning in colourful dots. The detectable message is that the highs of superstar can activate someone and in the end do them in. A okay a Depp’s extreme 8 years.
Nonetheless, that’s good-looking lavish, as superstar energy is the only real reason why that this masturbatory exhibition exists.
Our arrogance commute results in a dark field, wherein Depp narrates an animated movie of his artwork with insights about his lifestyles in a phony Bruce Springsteen campfire tone.
“My entire family thought I was insane,” he says to the miracle of nobody.
Strolling out, I requested some other nurse if Depp’s assortment is on sale.
“It is and it isn’t,” he spoke back.
I took that to heartless that if you must ask, you’ll’t manage to pay for it.
However concern now not. Within the reward store, any individual should purchase a filled animal lookalike of Depp’s canine Mr. Mooh, who kicked the bucket in 2009, for $40.
It’s the easiest provide for the one that simply needs a number of stuff.
