TIM BURTON

PAST VENUES

December 12, 2012 - April 14, 2013
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA)
Seoul, South Korea

March 7 - August 5, 2012
La Cinémathèque Française
Paris, France

May 29 - October 31, 2011
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Los Angeles, CA

November 26, 2010 - April 17, 2011
TIFF Bell Lightbox
Toronto, Canada

June 24 - October 10, 2010
Australia Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Melbourne, Australia

November 22, 2009 - April 26, 2010
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York, NY

Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explored 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 brought 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 revealed his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition was accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton’s theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication.

Burton’s films include Vincent (1982), Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas (as creator and producer) (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(2005), and Sweeney Todd (2007); writing and Web projects include The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (1997) and Stainboy (2000).

Tim Burton exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art’s Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, and Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film, with Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film