‘Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio’ Exhibit Opening at MoMA Later This Year

Lead Photo: CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 24: Guillermo del Toro attends the 75th Anniversary celebration screening of "The Innocent (L'Innocent)" during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 24, 2022 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic)
CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 24: Guillermo del Toro attends the 75th Anniversary celebration screening of "The Innocent (L'Innocent)" during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 24, 2022 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic)

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced an exhibition dedicated to Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s (The Shape of Water) upcoming stop-motion animated film, Pinocchio.

Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio will run at MoMA from December 11, 2022, to April 16, 2023. The exhibition, which coincides with the film’s premiere, includes production art, props, and a glimpse at the intricate puppet-making process. It will also include working sets from the film, motion tests, and time-lapse video installations.

“No art form has influenced my life and my work more than animation and no single character in history has had as deep of a personal connection to me as Pinocchio,” del Toro said.

According to the exhibition description from MoMA, visitors will “experience being on a movie set and see first-hand how an international team of designers, craftspeople, and animation artists in Portland, Oregon, and Guadalajara, Mexico, worked collaboratively to realize del Toro’s vision.”

Del Toro’s version of Pinocchio, which is scheduled for release on Netflix at the end of the year, is based on artist Gris Grimly’s 2002 design of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio. The all-star cast includes the voices of Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Ron Perlman, Christoph Waltz, and Tilda Swinton.

The animated Pinocchio is not the only movie debuting this year about the legendary marionette who wishes to become a real boy. Disney+ will also premiere a live-action film – also called Pinocchio – in September. It, too, boasts an impressive cast, which includes Tom Hanks, Cynthia Erivo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Keegan-Michael Key.