{"id":628036,"date":"2026-09-18T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628036\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:54:09","slug":"johnny-depps-first-sculpture-to-be-unveiled-at-istanbul-art-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628036\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp\u2019s First Sculpture To Be Unveiled At Istanbul Art Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohnny Depp<\/a>\u2019s first sculpture, a two-metre white bronze called \u2018The Bunnyman\u2019, will be unveiled at Turkish art fair Contemporary Istanbul, which runs 22\u201327 September.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe artwork will be presented outdoors at Tersane Istanbul, the historic Ottoman shipyard on the Golden Horn, as one of the fair\u2019s special projects.<\/p>\n

The sculpture is described as a \u201chalf-human, half-rabbit guardian carrying a \u2018sword of truth\u2019\u201d. The work began with a drawing by Depp\u2019s son Jack, aged around five, which reminded Depp of his own recurring childhood dream. The figure has since appeared across Depp\u2019s sketches, paintings, and prints.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sculpture came about through a collaboration between the Sigg Art Foundation, Pantheon Art, and Fonderia Artistica Battaglia in Milan.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe unveiling coincides with Depp\u2019s exhibition, A Bunch of Stuff, at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, which features more than 200 of his art works.<\/p>\n

\n\tDepp, who is in post on movies Ebenezer and Day Drinker, said: \u201cWhen people see the painting I did \u2014 The Bunnyman \u2014 they always ask the same question: where did it come from? Some character that Jack had scribbled, beautiful scribbles into that shape, that image, reminded me of a kind of recurrent dream that I had as a child, probably around Jack\u2019s age, five, six\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp\u2019s first sculpture, a two-metre white bronze called \u2018The Bunnyman\u2019, will be unveiled at Turkish art fair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,28371],"class_list":["post-628036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-johnny-depp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}