The new Tim Burton exhibition at London's Design Museum offers a glimpse into the methods behind the director's wonderfully macabre madness.
Tim Burton and curator Maria McLintock at the London exhibition, which showcases 600 items from the director's body of work.is the final stop for the show, which has toured the world for a decade. The show will run from Friday to April 21.’s opening. He conceded, however, that there’s something slightly mortifying about one’s adolescent artwork being on public display.
“It’s like seeing your dirty laundry put on the walls or something,” said the director. “I can’t overly look at it because it slightly overwhelms me.” The show opens with Burton’s earliest works — drawings of spindly boys metamorphosing into multicolored monsters. It was a clear rebellion against growing up in the boring suburbs of Burbank, Calif. “As much as I think about the horrors of suburbia, there were also beautiful things that could spawn, spur your creativity and make you think about things,” Burton said.
Asked if his feelings toward cookie cutter cul-de-sacs had changed over time, he said, “Burbank made me want to watch monster movies, for some reason. These places, I think, shape who you are. I still have very fond, disturbed feelings, about the whole thing,” he continued.“Michelle Pfeiffer was stitched inside the suit every day for filming, which is wild,” McLintock said of the actress’ “Batman” catsuit, so delicate it had to be displayed laying flat.
Moving through the exhibition, visitors are able to look at Burton’s napkin sketches, sculptures and watercolors that laid the groundwork for his most famous titles, including “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Mars Attacks!” and “Despite traveling the world for a decade, more than 32,000 people have purchased tickets to the London show. It has drawn the biggest advance ticket sales in the Design Museum’s history.
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