MINNEAPOLIS — It’s extraordinary when one of the most talented, original and acclaimed filmmakers of his time moves from the artificial canvas of theater screens to traditional museum exhibits. But who expects the ordinary from Guillermo del Toro?
Every del Toro film is a ravishing one of a kind. In artfully designed, genre-defying fantasies such as “The Devil’s Backbone,” “Hellboy,” “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Pacific Rim” and “Crimson Peak,” the Mexican-born director/writer/producer transports audiences to brutal and bewitching territory.
Now he is moving from pop culture to the art gallery through “Guillermo del Toro: At Home With Monsters,” running at the Minneapolis Institute of Art through May 28.
An elaborate haunted-house display showcases his private treasury of memorabilia from fantasy and science fiction films. The exhibit is presented in atmospheric spaces inspired by del Toro’s Bleak House, a sprawling Los Angeles mansion he transformed into an Edwardian house of horrors to contain his vast holdings.