PHOTO: Edward Scissorhands, Mars attacks! and Wednesday. Tim Burton in Prague again

“I’ve been working for Tim for fifteen years. He is the greatest artist I know. Bigger than anyone can imagine,” said Tim Burton’s manager Brandi Pomfret in Prague on Tuesday.

She also mentioned that he also has an incredible memory: “He will describe to me exactly when and where and what he painted. Probably thirty years ago. Then we go looking for the work in question and we actually find it.”

Photo: Petr Hloušek, Novinky

Tim Burton was personally present at the opening of his exhibition in 2014 in Prague.

When asked which exhibit she would highlight at the exhibition, she responded unequivocally after thinking for a moment: “A flying saucer and aliens. Which is the oldest exhibit. He painted it when he was fourteen years old and then heard from a teacher that he would never be a painter. He advised him then that he had to copy the masters, that he had to choose one. So he chose: Hieronymus Bosch.’

Hundreds of works, including new ones

The exhibition will feature 600 works, including storyboards, sketches, sets, puppets and photographs from timeless film classics such as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mars Attacks! and Stolen Christmas, to contemporary films such as Dumbo and Miss Peregrine’s Orphanage for Peculiar Children.

Photo: Petr Horník, Novinky

The objects invite you into a space in which the exceptional artist combines the innocent world of childhood with the dark side of human existence, incorporating exaggeration and humor. With this connection, he tells stories across genres and styles.

Tim Burton and his world. Prague, 2014Video: Art Movement

The exhibition’s return to Prague follows a worldwide tour that delighted visitors to the world’s best museums and galleries, including the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico, the Design Museum in Seoul and many others.

The organizers of the current Prague exhibition also hope that Tim Burton will personally arrive in Prague again, as he did in 2014. That time he met visitors at the House U Kamenného zvonu, which hosted the exhibition at the time.