A museum retrospective saluting the work of the imaginative Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro has opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
A museum retrospective, Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters takes place at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Over 500 objects organized under categories such as Childhood and Innocence, Magic and the Occult, Freaks and Monsters will be on display for the director's many fans.
The show comprises drawings, notebooks, paintings, sculptures, prints, costumes, ancient artifacts and even some specimens from his collection of insects.
There is also a special Rain Room installation - named Bleak House after Charles Dickens' novel - which includes a false window through which visitors behold an incessant thunder-storm.
Del Toro describes the show as “a devotional sampling of the enormous love that is required to create, maintain and love monsters in our lives.” The exhibition runs until November 27.
The 51-year old director began his career as a special effects artist in his native Mexico, some years before before he came to public attention as the director of a number of outstanding fantasy films, including Hellboy (2004), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and, in recent times, Crimson Peak.
