Sculptures of Ron Mueck
Ron Mueck (born 1958) is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the United Kingdom.
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, and the Jim Henson series The Storyteller.
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 1999 Mueck was appointed as Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London. During this two year post he created the works Mother and Child, Pregnant Woman, Man in a Boat and Swaddled Baby.
In 2002 his sculpture Pregnant Woman was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for AU$800,000.
Spooning Couple (2005), mixed media. 1/2 scale of partially clothed middle-aged man and woman lying in ’spooning’ position as if in bed - artist’s collection
Mask II (2001-2), mixed media. Huge head (the face appears to be Mueck’s own), lying on its side as if asleep - private collection.
Man in a Boat (2002), mixed media - 1/3 scale naked man seated toward the prow of a 4-metre long rowing boat
Pregnant Woman (2002), fibreglass, resin, silicone - 2.5 metres tall sculpture of a naked pregnant woman clasping her hands above her head - National Gallery of Australia
Baby (2000), mixed media - tiny naked newborn baby boy, arms akimbo - Keith and Kathy Sachs.
Mother and Child (2002), fibreglass, resin, silicone - 1/2 scale naked woman who has just given birth, the baby laid on her stomach with umbilical cord still attached and trailing to the woman’s womb.
Two Women (2005) - two diminutive, clothed, elderly women - National Gallery of Victoria (Australia)
Angel (1997), mixed media - a 1/3 scale boy seated on a tall stool, in a brooding pose looking down, sprouting wings made of real goose feathers
Wild Man (2005) - a nine-foot sculpture of a naked, bearded man clutching the stool he is seated on
Hyperreality
is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures. Hyperreality is a means to characterize the way consciousness defines what is actually “real” in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter an original event or experience.
(by wikipedia.org)
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