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Mask II
2000
"Peek
inside and you can see teeth, gums and even a little
faux saliva," writes Plagens of "Mask
II." "Stand beside it for a moment, and
you'll swear you can hear him snore." |
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Big Baby
1996/97,
The Saatchi Gallery, London
Photo By Steven
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Mueck,
Ron (1958- ) Ron Mueck is a London-based
photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne, Australia, to
parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s
television shows for 15 years before working in special
effects for such films as “Labyrinth,” a 1986 fantasy
epic starring David Bowie.
Muek then started his own company in
London, making models to be photographed for advertisements.
He has lots of the dolls he made during his advertising
years stored in his home. Although some still have, he
feels, “a presence on their own,” many were made just to
be photographed from a particular angle—”one strip of a
face,” for example, with a lot of loose material lurking
an inch outside the camera’s frame.
Eventually
Mueck concluded that photography pretty much destroys the
physical “presence” of the original object, and so he
turned to fine art and sculpture. In the early 1990s, still
in his advertising days, Mueck was commissioned to make
something highly realistic, and was wondering what material
would do the trick. Latex was the usual, but he wanted
something harder, more precise. Luckily, he saw a little
architectural decor on the wall of a boutique and inquired
as to the nice, pink stuff’s nature. Fiberglass resin was
the answer, and Mueck has made it his bronze and marble ever
since.
In the three years since his participation in Sensation:
Works from the Saatchi Collection, Mueck has posted
shows at major galleries in New York, Germany, not to
mention selection for the London Millenium Dome and now his
work is the subject of a solo exhibition at that city’s
highest profile contemporary art space, Anthony d’Offay
gallery. |
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Ghost
1998
A
seven-foot adolescent girl in a bathing suit,
"Ghost" was "the perfect metaphor for her
poignant discomfort with her own body"
Fibreglass,
silicon, polyurethane foam, acrylic fibre and fabric
From the
Tate Museum Collection
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New
York Exhibitions
- 2000-01
- Ron
Mueck New Work
- Friday, May 11, 2001 -
Saturday, June 16, 2001
- James
Cohan Gallery, 41 West 57th Street, New York, New
York 10019
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- 1999-2000
- Extra Ordinary
- Thursday, May 18, 2000 -
Friday, June 30, 2000
- James
Cohan Gallery, 41 West 57th Street, New York, New
York 10019
- artists
in exhibition
- Sensation: Young
British Artists from the Saatchi Collection
- Saturday, October 2, 1999
- Sunday, January 9, 2000
- Brooklyn
Museum of Art, Beatrice and Samuel A. Seaver
Gallery, 5th floor; European Paintings Gallery, 5th
floor; Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th floor, 200
Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238
- artists
in exhibition
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Mother and Baby
2001
"Mother
and Baby" is "the most unflinchingly affectionate
portrait of childbirth you'll probably ever see,"
according to the critic
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Pinocchio
1996
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Mask
1997
158 x 153 x 124 cm / 62 x 60 x 49 in |
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Dead Dad
1996-1997
Silicone and Acrylic Paint |
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