ACMI – Tim Burton: The art and imagination of the most fantastical filmmaker of our time
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005), Directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, Shown: Co-director Tim Burton on the set, Photo credit: Derek Frey
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) joins Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010 with an Australian exclusive exhibition direct from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The largest exhibition to ever be presented in ACMI’s Gallery 1 has been curated in direct collaboration with Burton and features artworks and objects drawn from his personal archive, as well as studio archives and the private collections.
The exhibition follows the course of Burton’s career, with childhood ephemera, juvenilia, and amateur short films from his youth in Burbank, California; cartoons and drawings from his time at California Institute of the Arts; and examples of his first professional work at The Walt Disney Studios. Burton’s artistic output includes shorts Vincent (1982) and Frankenweenie (1984); and 15 feature films including Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010); as well as writing and web projects such as Stainboy (2000).
Tim Burton. (American, b. 1958), Untitled (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories ), 1982–1984, Pen and ink, marker, and colored pencil on paper, 10 x 9″ (25.4 x 22.9cm), Private Collection, © 2009 Tim Burton
Tim Burton will open at ACMI on 24 June and run until 10 October 2010. Mr Burton will be at ACMI in Melbourne for the opening of the exhibition.
To accompany the exhibition ACMI will curate a film season and specialist public and education programs for all ages, which will be announced at a later date.
Tim Burton is the second Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibition at ACMI after Pixar: 20 years of Animation, which broke international attendance records in 2007. Tim Burton will directly follow Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood, another Australian exclusive exhibition at ACMI which premieres on 12 November 2009.
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