Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic has paid tribute to Stanley Kubrick, as an exhibition exploring the life and work of the legendary film director opens at the museum today.
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition showcases over 500 objects, including production documents, props, set designs and storyboards from the American director's "genre-defining" films, such as The Shining, Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange.
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of Kubrick's death, the exhibition ? curated by Deyan Sudjic and designed by Pentagram partner Marina Willer ? explores the filmmaker's entire creative design process, from storytelling and set design, to directing and editing.
The exhibition starts with a focus on Kubrick's use of symmetrical one-point perspective Sudjic said the director's talent was in his ability to make any genre relevant and exciting.
"Every film he made was so different. He explored every genre ? historical, costume drama, science fiction, horror," he told Dezeen. "You get a sense of the drama and excitement of filmmaking."
The exhibition has been shown in 15 cities. Unlike previous exhibitions, however, which have shown Kubrick's work chronologically, Sudjic wanted to divide the exhibition thematically into seven sections, with a special focus on design.
Original costumes worn by the cast of A Clockwork Orange feature in the exhibition
Sudjic also wanted the exhibition to examine ...