{"id":3528,"date":"2024-10-25T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coinpop.me\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T11:45:28","slug":"tim-burton-design-exhibition-explores-work-and-mind-of-unique-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coinpop.me\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/tim-burton-design-exhibition-explores-work-and-mind-of-unique-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Burton design exhibition explores work and mind of “unique director”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spooky puppets, original costumes and childhood drawings feature in The World of Tim Burton, an exhibition<\/a> at London’s Design Museum<\/a> charting 50 years of the American filmmaker’s work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Opening today, the exhibition<\/a> of over 600 objects offers a glimpse into the mind of director and animator Burton<\/a>, whose distinctively uncanny films include the 1990 Edward Scissorhands<\/a> and the 2007 Sweeny Todd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Design Museum<\/a> exhibition is spread across a series of dedicated rooms that unpack Burton’s work and inspirations “through the lens of design”, according to curator Maria McLintock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The World of Tim Burton has opened at London’s Design Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Born in 1958 in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, Burton is renowned for his gothic movies that tend to blend depictions of the real world with imaginary universes.<\/p>\n

The first room of the exhibition contains rows of colourful display units shaped like houses that nod to the director’s suburban childhood \u2013 the banality of which was a huge influence on Burton’s creativity, according to McLintock.<\/p>\n

“He takes these very archetypal, suburban terrains and turns them on their head, making them eerie,” the curator told Dezeen during a tour of the exhibition.<\/p>\n

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Early drawings are on display<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A vast collection of early drawings<\/a> finished in pen, ink and pencil line the house-shaped structures, featuring recurring Burton characters including the skeleton Jack Skellington, which would later star in The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also on display is a painted metal sign emblazoned with the words “crush litter” \u2013 the young Burton’s winning entry to a local design competition for Burbank’s refuse collection vehicles from 1973.<\/p>\n

“Tim Burton is first and foremost an artist, and I think that’s what makes him a really interesting person and a unique director,” McLintock said.<\/p>\n

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Puppets from the 2005 film Corpse Bride feature in the exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moving through the exhibition, visitors can find low-lit plinths displaying props from a range of Burton films. Among the collection are puppets<\/a> from the 2005 stop-motion animation Corpse Bride<\/a>, including the spindly, blue-haired bride herself.<\/p>\n

“The bride’s costume was like a puppet in itself,” said puppet-maker and long-term collaborator Ian Mackinnon of the production company Mackinnon & Saunders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It was silk embedded with silicone and wires. When you see her dancing in the forest, her veil following the wind, it looks like it’s the lightest, most delicate fabric but it’s none of those things.”<\/p>\n

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Costumes are also part of the show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Life-size costumes also feature in the show, such as a red-and-black silk and tulle dress from Burton’s 2010 version of Alice in Wonderland<\/a>, created by costume designer and frequent collaborator Colleen Atwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Visitors can walk through a deliberately disorientating corridor characterised by angled door frames and asymmetrical black-and-white chequered flooring, which nods to Burton’s 1988 classic Beetlejuice<\/a>\u00a0as well as the film’s recently released sequel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Three of the director’s towering steel sculptures line the corridor, depicting otherworldly characters with oversized, spiky jaws and twiggy arms \u2013 similar to those seen in his early drawings.<\/p>\n

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Visitors can walk through a deliberately disorientating corridor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is also a section dedicated to Burton’s work beyond film \u2013 from photography projects to fashion and music video collaborations.<\/p>\n

An immersive soundscape of 300 audio samples plays throughout the space, designed for the exhibition by composer Tomi Rose<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Each of the soundtracks directly responds to the stories of each of the rooms,” explained McLintock.<\/p>\n