Pixar: 20 Years of Animation

Studio’s Six Features Join Several Shorts and First-Ever Public Display of Original Pixar Artwork to Comprise Largest Exhibition for an Animation Presentation

The Museum of Modern Art presents Pixar: 20 Years of Animation, in the most extensive theater and gallery exhibition it has ever devoted to the art of animation. Pixar Animation Studios has had worldwide critical and box office success with its feature films, from Toy Story (1995) to The Incredibles (2004). The exhibition marks the first time Pixar is lending its art collection for display outside its studios. The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Gallery will be devoted to moving image work created especially by the studio for this exhibition, illustrating the processes involved in creating their signature works. In addition, all six features and ten shorts will be screened in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters and Pixar is donating all theatrical features and shorts to the Museum’s permanent film collection. The exhibition will include a comprehensive lecture series that will give insights into the genesis of the features and shorts. Paintings, concept art, and other works on paper will be installed in the theater galleries and on the first floor, showing the multiple evolutions that characters and environments go through before their final on-screen incarnation. Pixar: 20 Years of Animation illustrates the artistry and craft of a studio devoted to making believable animated imagery, and acknowledges computer-generated animation as a moving image art form.

Steven Higgins is a Curator in the Department of Film and Media, where he has co-organized numerous film series, including 112 Years of Cinema and MoMA's annual film preservation festival, To Save and Project. Most recently, he has curated the four-DVD set Edison: The Invention of the Movies, which was released in February 2005 by Kino.

Ronald S. Magliozzi is an Assistant Curator in the Department of Film and Media, where he manages Special Collections and has organized exhibits on animation and on early film and music. His work has been published in Film History and Moving Image and he was the editor of Treasures from the Film Archives (1988). From 1990 to 1996, he served as the head of the International Federation of Film Archives Documentation Commission.

Pixar Animation Studios combines creative and technical artistry to create original stories in the medium of computer animation. Pixar has created six of the most successful animated feature films of all time—Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles—and has won 18 Academy Awards®. The Northern California studio will release its next film, Cars, on June 9, 2006.

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Pixar : 20 Years of Animation
Kuratoren: Steven Higgins, Ron Magliozzi

Pixar Animation Studios  (Randy Berrett, Geefwee Boedoe, Pete Docter, Greg Dykstra, Ralph Eggleston, Harley Jessup, Jason Katz, Tia Kratter Sullivan, John Lasseter, Dominique Louis, Teddy Newton, Rick Nierva, Bob Pauley, Joe Ranft, Lou Romano, Jay Shuster, Doug Sweetland, Simon Vladimir Varela, Kureha Yokoo ...)