Tim Burton—Gothic Imagination, at MOMA
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/blog/museums/tim-burton%E2%80%94gothic-imagination/771/
We should thank our lucky stars that Tim Burton (b. 1958) doesn’t seem to be a compulsive cleaner, otherwise we might not be able to see the wide range of his drawings and doodles—from recent to back when he was just a kid, predating the several years he spent at Disney—that are part of MOMA’s retrospective of this director’s oeuvre (November 22 through April 26). Even back when, his boundless, macabre imagination came across like a laser beam.
MOMA clearly had fun with this installation (organized by Ron Magliozzi, Jenny He, and Rajendra Roy), evident in the showier elements of the exhibition. You enter through a giant gaping mouth set piece, passing several monitors showing the disturbing-yet-endearing animatedWorld of Stainboy. Then comes a room lit by black light, including a recently-made space module-like sculpture of an older sketch, and neon works that pop in the black light, prior to entering the main gallery hall. It’s closer to an amusement park than a museum, which is entirely appropriate.
