Mask 2 by ron mueck biography
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James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition of London-based sculptor Ron Mueck. The exhibition will feature two new startlingly life-like sculptures: an oversized mask of a male figure in repose and a haunting and radical depiction of a mother and child in miniature. Mueck continues to capture unnerving aspects of the human psyche through his use of scale and acute attention to detail.
Born in Melbourne, Australia in , Mueck worked for children's television from He then moved to London and worked on film and television projects such as Labryinth andThe Story Teller. In he started his own company in London creating animatronics and models for the advertising industry in Europe. Mueck first came to the forefront of the British art scene in when several of his sculptures including Dead Dad were shown in the Royal Academy exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection. In he was awarded a two-year te
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The Art of Anatomy – Ron Mueck
The artist’s large and lifelike sculpture puts the viewer in the uncomfortable position of voyeur
The human body can be one of the most beautiful, but also, in more traumatic times, one of the most unsettling things you’re likely to behold. Representations of it have both sought to mitigate and accentuate those reactions over the centuries, as our book, Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body explains.
“The idea of reproducing the human body in wax became popular in the eighteenth century in northern Italy,” writes Thomas Schnalke, Director of the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité, in the book’s introduction.
“The undisputed centre was the Museo La Specola in Florence, an institution that aimed to impart scientific knowledge to the public by displaying the life-size anatomy of the human body in realistic colours and in three dimensions – but without the need for ‘disgusting’ post-mortems.”
Today, modern manufacturing techniques have
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Isn&#;t it incredible? I&#;ve been fascinated by Ron Mueck&#;s sculptures since inom first saw a urval of them on display at the Royal Scottish Academy Building in Edinburgh, back in the summer of For those who aren&#;t aware of his work, Mueck started out as a model maker and puppeteer for children&#;s television and films (most notably the film Labyrinth), eventually switching to work in fine art given a desire to man more life-like creations viewable from all angles and perspectives. Consequently, he was introduced to the infamous Charles Saatchi by his mother-in-law, Paula Rego, who was instantly impressed with his sculpture and began collecting and commissioning works. This led to the piece that made Mueck&#;s reputation and the one for which most people know him for, Dead Dad (), a silicone and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of Mueck&#;s father that established Mueck&#;s incredible ability to create life-like sculptures in larger- (and often sm