If you ever wanted an up close and personal look at Guillermo Del Toro’s impressive and extensive collection, housed in a home he’s dubbed Bleak House, you will have the opportunity to check it out beginning in July. The Pan’s Labyrinth director and everyone’s favorite McPoyle will be contributing many pieces to an exhibit that will include 500 objects, 60 from Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Named Guillermo del Toro: At Home With The Monsters, the exhibit will be at the LACMA and then travel to Minneapolis and Toronto.
Del Toro has been an avid collector since childhood and told the New York Times last year that he owns an insane amount of original artwork and roughly 9,000 books. Del Toro and his family do not live in Bleak House or Bleak House 2. (Yes, he needed to build another house next to Bleak House to show his collection.) Del Toro explained his situation to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:
“I have two houses for me and one house for my family. I live in the family home and I work in my two houses. The two houses are organized in libraries. There’s a library for horror, a library for history, a library for art. I have about roughly eight to nine thousand books. I have roughly about fifty thousand magazine and comics. I have about five hundred and eighty original pieces of art; acrylics, oils…..I have secret passages behind bookshelves. I have a room where it rains all day. At fifty-one I live the life of a well-financed twelve year-old.”
Del Toro is living the dream while we’re lucky that our significant others allow us to keep our geeky things in the garage. You can live vicariously through Del Toro if you have the opportunity to see this awesome exhibit.
(Via: Slash Film)
