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Amazing
art by Ron Mueck.
Ron Mueck (born 1958)
is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in Great
Britain.
Mueck's early career was as a model maker and puppeteer
for children's television and films, notably the film
Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo.
Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London,
making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the
advertising industry. Although highly detailed, these
props were usually designed to be photographed from one
specific angle hiding the mess of construction seen from
the other side. Mueck increasingly wanted to produce realistic
sculptures which looked perfect from all angles.
In 1996 Mueck transitioned to fine art, collaborating
with his mother-in-law, Paula Rego, to produce small figures
as part of a tableau she was showing at the Hayward Gallery.
Rego introduced him to Charles Saatchi who was immediately
impressed and started to collect and commission work.
This led to the piece which made Mueck's name, Dead Dad,
being included in the Sensation show at the Royal Academy
the following year. Dead Dad is a rather haunting silicone
and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of Mueck's father
reduced to about two thirds of its natural scale. It is
the only work of Mueck's that uses his own hair for the
finished product.
Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail
of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly
jarring visual images. His five metre high sculpture Boy
1999 was a feature in the Millennium Dome and later exhibited
in the Venice Biennale.
In 2002 his sculpture Pregnant Woman was purchased by
the National Gallery of Australia for AU$800,000... |
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