Actor, musician and artist Johnny Depp took his artistic world to Tokyo, The city chosen by the actor for his international debut for his exhibition A bunch of stuff (Lots of things), a chaotic journey through his life and mind across more than one hundred works and personal objects.
“Drawing, creating, drawing…it was a big part of my life. But he painted these paintings and then kept them in a garage so that no one would see them.Depp explained this Thursday while presenting the exhibition to the press, one day before it opens to the public at NEWoMan Takanawa in the capital’s Minato district.
On his first visit to Japan in eight years, the actor emphasized the personal nature of the exhibition, which… He combines paintings, photographs, writings and collected everyday objects For more than three decades, which can be visited until May 6, 2026.
“Creativity is a constant need of mine, and if it wasn’t, I feel like my mind would explode,” described the actor, who admitted that he had been for many years He set certain “boundaries” that prevented him from continuing to createThis is something he now considers a “huge mistake.”
The exhibition is a journey through the artist’s mind where you can see pictures of the people he met, the places he visited, or simply, The “strange whims” that come to your mind when you have free time He said and many thoughts.
An immersive journey into the actor’s ‘art haven’
After crossing a corridor of red curtains, the exhibition is organized as a successive series of chapters that blend the everyday with the expressionism and surrealism of his works, as Depp brings together some of the most representative pieces of his career, Among them are paintings dedicated to his children and fictional characters.
It is also worth noting groups such as Death by sweets (Death by Confetti) is a series in which the artist depicts a mixture of celebration and suffocation due to fame and Hollywood attention; Or his collection in honor of the actress Hedy Lamarr, where Depp offers phrases written like graffiti about the translator: “The same world that made her a star erased her“, reads in some of those works.
The second room, painted in blue, combines the most diverse objects suspended from the ceiling. Pens, postcards and memos written on hotel notebook paper are lying in the space To honor the title of the exhibition itself: a lot of things.
Empty cans, paintbrushes, skulls, a lamp in a wooden shoe or colorful paintings are some of the things that decorate the different exhibition spaces, Who want to recreate the artist’s personal space with furniture from their home.
In the center of the gallery is Black boxIt is a thirteen-minute short film shown in 360 degrees, showing paintings of the actor accompanied by music and With his voice as the narrator, He recalls his Bedouin childhood, his creative impulses, and shares the moments that defined his artistic life.
“I was more of a person than most people. The question is, is there anything you can offer?,” he says in a voiceover.
A bunch of stuff It is a personal and chaotic exhibition that aims to satisfy the “liberation” that Depp feels when creating his works and which he decided to exhibit in the Japanese capital, A place “world-famous for centuries of art”said the actor, who expressed his “absolute honour” to be in it.