Telling timeless stories managing to enchant the public is considered a real art, but behind the typical immediacy of the perfect artistic result hides - as often happens in the art world - a work of creative research that lasts years, generally unknown to those who hear these stories.

After the success at Mudec in Milan and at Palazzo Barberini in Rome , from 14 October 2022 to 2 April 2023 “Disney. The art of telling timeless stories”, the exhibition that tells the public about this creative process.

The itinerary tells the visitor about Walt Disney's masterpieces by bringing the stories - which we are all used to knowing in the Disney version - to the ancient matrixes of epic tradition: they are the myths, medieval legends and folklore, the fables and tales that make up for centuries the archetypal narrative heritage of the different cultures of the world, a real melting pot between the different continents. These are also the thematic sections of the exhibition, in which the most famous stories from which Disney films have been based find their place and are presented in a narrative key through the display of preparatory sketches of creative research, focused on the exploration of characters, settings and narrative plots.

The great innovative effort of the Disney artists was in fact - and still is today - that of bringing these stories to the cinema using different artistic tools, from hand drawing - a fundamental element of the work in the Studios - to digital animation, to capture the essence of ancient fairy tales and revitalize them, updating their universal value.

In fact, animation is an artistic medium that allows you to represent the different narratives with immediacy. From the beginning, Walt Disney and his team worked on these themes, giving human aspects and feelings to the animals and objects of fairy tales, the fairies and dwarfs of fairy tales, with such naturalness and likelihood that they quickly achieved global success. With a very detailed study of human and animal behavior, Disney artists have created over the years universally known characters such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Myths and legends of gods and heroes, animal tales, tales of knights, witches, wizards and princesses take on the features of cartoons: from Robin Hood to The Sword in the Stone to The Three Little Pigs, from Hercules to Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, up to Frozen 2 – The Secret of Arendelle.