MoMA.org has posted the first in a series of bi-weekly blog posts by the curators of the Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA., with this first post describing the precise moment that the idea of a Tim Burton exhibit crossed the curator’s mind, as he viewed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory back in 2005.
With the second or third line of banter between Wonka and the children, I suddenly thought of Corpse Bride, Burton’s other 2005 feature, released only a few months before. I instantly made a comparison between Corpse’s Gothic qualities and the Psychedelic Pop Art of Charlie, and this triggered the realization: “Tim Burton—we should be presenting Tim Burton at the Museum.” I’m told I actually said this out loud.
The Tim Burton exhibit opened at the MoMA in Manhattan this past Sunday, November 22nd, and will run through April 26th, 2010. The exhibit chronicles the work of the filmmaker and all-around creative, and celebrates the impact his films and art direction – including Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands – have had on art and popular culture. Timed tickets are available via the MoMA site.
MoMA explains:
This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood,and Beetlejuice, and from unrealized and little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication.
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