{"id":134826,"date":"2023-09-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-155542"},"modified":"2023-09-17T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T15:00:00","slug":"feature-the-art-of-nintendo-power-exhibit-a-guided-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/17\/feature-the-art-of-nintendo-power-exhibit-a-guided-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: ‘The Art Of Nintendo Power’ Exhibit – A Guided Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you ever seen an original Contra<\/a> up close? What about an original Mario Kart<\/a>?<\/p>\n

For Stephan Reese<\/strong>, organizer and showrunner for the non-profit Interactive Art Collection<\/a> (and a Senior Producer at video game developer Bungie when he\u2019s not busy doing that), it\u2019s his life\u2019s mission that you might have the pleasure of seeing pop-culture history outside of the confines of your TV screens and old magazines.<\/p>\n

His team\u2019s latest exhibit is the aptly titled \u201cThe Art of Nintendo Power<\/a>,\u201d a traveling art show that most recently exhibited at PAX West 2023 in Seattle. For four days, attendees could walk a room and bask in original Nintendo Power prints, line art, posters, 3D models, and much more. The exhibit features all original art with zero replications, stemming from the earliest points in the history of the 1980s print magazine, which was originally crafted and written for kids, as well as for all of us kid-like adults who now fondly remember its technicolor, off-the-wall pages.<\/p>\n

Nintendo Life caught up with Reese at this year\u2019s PAX and asked him to highlight choice pieces from the non-profit\u2019s collection, hoping to gain a little insight into one of the most quintessential eras in retro media…<\/p>\n

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Stephan Reese:<\/strong> This is a number of panels by an artist named Kev Brockschmidt<\/a> who\u2019s most notably known for his Magic: The Gathering<\/strong> cards.<\/p>\n

A lot of artists who had worked for Nintendo Power were also moonlighting doing other things, either working for the magazine and moonlighting or just contract artists who were also doing many other things. This is actually one of my favorite images of Kirby, this little chubby-cheeks Kirby in the upper right-hand corner of that first frame\u2026I used him for my profile picture for a long time.<\/p>\n

Kevin is just an absolutely amazing artist, and they used him for a lot of internal pages for first-party. This is an amazing example of his work.<\/p>\n