Catherine Gran
Mickey’s Necropolis, 2024
Ink on paper
56 x 38 cm
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€ 3,900.00
Catherine Gran Nécropole de Mickey, 2024 Ink on paper In Nécropole de Mickey, Catherine Gran transforms one of the most enduring figures of popular culture into an overgrown funerary monument....
Catherine Gran
Nécropole de Mickey, 2024
Ink on paper
In Nécropole de Mickey, Catherine Gran transforms one of the most enduring figures of popular culture into an overgrown funerary monument. A classical mausoleum, invaded by ivy and inhabited by birds, bears the inscription “Mickey Mouse, born 1928,” while the familiar silhouette reappears above as a fragile spectral form. The icon is both memorialized and strangely reborn within nature.
Gran’s meticulous ink technique gives the composition its quiet authority. Through intricate cross-hatching and subtle tonal contrasts, stone, foliage, feathers, and architecture acquire equal presence. The precision of the drawing balances the solemn language of commemoration with the playful legacy of animation.
The work reflects on longevity, fame, and transformation. Rather than disappearing, Mickey passes into myth, monument, and ecosystem. Gran suggests that cultural icons outlive their original era by continually changing form, surviving less as characters than as collective symbols embedded in memory.
Nécropole de Mickey, 2024
Ink on paper
In Nécropole de Mickey, Catherine Gran transforms one of the most enduring figures of popular culture into an overgrown funerary monument. A classical mausoleum, invaded by ivy and inhabited by birds, bears the inscription “Mickey Mouse, born 1928,” while the familiar silhouette reappears above as a fragile spectral form. The icon is both memorialized and strangely reborn within nature.
Gran’s meticulous ink technique gives the composition its quiet authority. Through intricate cross-hatching and subtle tonal contrasts, stone, foliage, feathers, and architecture acquire equal presence. The precision of the drawing balances the solemn language of commemoration with the playful legacy of animation.
The work reflects on longevity, fame, and transformation. Rather than disappearing, Mickey passes into myth, monument, and ecosystem. Gran suggests that cultural icons outlive their original era by continually changing form, surviving less as characters than as collective symbols embedded in memory.