Entering a gallery space through a giant mouth with spiked teeth and shocking colors, Tim Burton’s show proved to be exciting at its very conception. The mouth swallows the viewer down a hallway filled with video animations shooting out into a black-lit room. The feeling was like a set in one of his movies, dark, and yet humorously brilliant. Wall to wall people scrunched together to peek at drawings from his days in Burbank, California. Many of the character studies shown were done after hours working for Disney and all the pent up energy from being an animator and concept artist there. The pent up energy exploded into monsters, exaggerated features and anthropomorphic creatures. Distorted sculptures of metal with the repetition of spiked teeth and big eyeballs continue around the space. Mock ups and video studies along with costumes from many of his movies, including the Edward Scissorhands costume as well as alien anatomy from Mars Attacks. Television ads and music videos further prove Burton’s extensive range of expression. I greatly enjoyed this video “Bones” by the killers using animated gestures of skeletons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar5BKXg60ME
If you are in New York it is a must see.
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