Ron Mueck
Ron Mueck , born with Melbourne in 1958 is a sculptor Australia N hyperrealist working in Great Britain. His/her father manufactured toys out of wooden and his mother of the headstocks of rags.
Mueck begins its career in the show business by modelling puppets for television and the cinema, in Australia, with Los Angeles then with London. He worked thus for the film Labyrinthe and collaborated in the Muppet Show . He founds in 1990 a production company of mannequins for publicities. Its photo-realistic characters are created to only be photographed of a certain angle and Mueck wishes more and more to produce sculptures seeming perfect whatever the position of the spectator.
Mueck passes to art in 1996 with its collaboration with his/her mother-in-law Paula Rego for whom it produces small characters for one of her tables, in particular a sculpture of Pinocchio. It introduces it with the collector Charles Saatchi which is impressed. It is revealed in 1997 by the exposure " Sensation" with the Royal Academy of Arts for which it created dead dad ( dead Père ), a work on the body of his/her father reduced to two thirds of his real size.
He knows since a success growing, of the Biennale de Venise in 2001 where he presents his " garçon" of five meters high. He was also selected for the exposure Melancolie of the Large palace in December 2005.
Its sculptures reproduce the human body in its more meticulous details thanks to silicone, the resin polyester and the oil-base paint. Behind its clinical precision, a taste of morbid shows through, through the forfeiture of its obese and growing old bodies accentuated by their abnormal dimensions.
In 2002, its sculpture Expectant mother was bought by the National Gallery off Australia for 800 000 Australian dollars.
It can be close to the artist Stanley Spencer of the Années 1930 or its contemporary Jenny Saville.
Exposure to the Museum of the Art schools of Canada
Of March 2nd 2007 at May 6th 2007, to Ottawa, the Fondation Cartier Boulevard Raspail (Paris XIV) presents the exposure of works of Ron Mueck.It is that which deeply renewed the question of the contemporary Sculpture by its monumental sculptures or curiously small which creates a tension between our real universe and the phantasmagoric world that it integrates there. The characters plunged in their thoughts seem alive, more the small details are present, the desire is strong to compare with one these colossi or of these Lilliputians and when one lets oneself take there and that it is looked at, notice only one thing, it is that there is nothing to notice, it they misses one only the word, that the movement, it is disconcerting, the perfect control of materials relays a sensitivity through this ambiguous naturalness. It is felt that it is not a question here of a simple will of banal realism to arrive at the figurative perfection but one enters the psychological spheres here complex characters, whose lives are induced through the setting in scene of each one of them: a naked man sitted on a chair, a woman sitting in her bed, all these elements which evoke their environment start the unperceivable glance of manner in order to leave free course to the personal fiction of the spectator.
Here 5 Works:
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Spouning Couples : A man and a miniature woman (surroundings 40cm) lengthened one beside the other almost naked as on a bed.
- MaskIII an enormous face of a black woman.
- Two women , two old women which have the air of papoter in the street while observing with far a mysterious event.
- In bed : A 6 m length woman which is lying in a bed and which seems to wake up.
- Wild man a naked giant with the anxious glance.
External bonds
a site with photographs: A video presenting of work of the artist