The World of Tim Burton, Pavilion Bukit Jalil

For the life of me, I have no idea why The World of Tim Burton ended up in Pavilion Bukit Jalil, of all places. The space for it, maybe? 

Comprised of approx. 540 works—including signature pieces from the Tim Burton retrospective as well as over 150 new works not seen in the MoMA exhibition tour—The World of Tim Burton gives new audiences an opportunity to experience Burton’s art in person for the first time and treats familiar visitors to an in-depth look further into his sensibility.

With over 800,000 visitors, the premiere of Burton’s art exhibition in New York was the third highest-attended exhibition in MoMA’s history. This sparked the inception of The World of Tim Burton, a re-conceptualized exhibition that mirrors MoMA’s success designed specifically for touring the world. The World of Tim Burton tour stops have included institutions such as the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul Korea; City Gallery Prague: The Stone Bell, Czech Republic; the Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; the Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany; the Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Brazil; ArtisTree Gallery, Hong Kong; and Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Mexico.

The exhibition features numerous works from Tim Burton’s early ages to the most recent project across mediums of sketches, paintings, drawings, photographs, maquettes and puppets he used for his film works, and life-sized sculptures. Along with the artist’s signature figure of Balloon Boy at the entrance of the exhibition are numerous, remarkable sculptures that were newly designed specifically for the exhibition.

Anyway, finally made the time to go check it out on a regular work, school day, not a holiday day in the broadest sense of the word. Took a half day off on Wednesday cos I hadn't taken the PTO yet this year.

Got there in the afternoon, only to find out that the card terminal is not working AT ALL. Of all the damn days. Despite walking to the Maybank outside to withdraw money (which I kind of have to anyway) and back, the card machine was still out of order. After minutes of staring daggers, I pulled out the cash for a ticket because me glaring wasn't gonna affect anything; I was so pissed I even paid the 40 cents cos I would really be mad if they told me they had no small change or whatever. 

But my mood was already kind of ruined by then; I might've actually bought some overpriced AF tchotchke from the gift shop if my mood wasn't sullied. Oh wells. Luckily by now, there are several ticketing promos so you're not stuck paying the full RM88 admission fee. So I used the Parkson membership card for 15% off, which was still better than nothing. 

Because of the no pictures and videos rule, I actually got to read every little placard in peace. It was nice not having to worry about photobombing some rando's soc med feed. It was just me and several other people inside, no kids (woo hoo).

There were several sections inside, so it wasn't all just one room, per se. If the 500 over pieces of art was including the napkin drawings, then correct lah, cos there were SO MANY napkin drawings on display there. I admit, having only ever seen a handful of his movies, it wasn't too bad. But not enough to go more than once.