RON MUECK
Hans Ronald Mueck
Mueck is a hyper-realistic sculptor,
Born in capital of Australia (melbourne)
in 1958 to german parents.
BACKGROUND
Ron Mueck was born during the year of 1958, in the capital of Australia, Melbourne, to German parents.The son of toy-makers, he grew up making all sorts of creatures, dolls and outfits in his spare time, experimenting with different materials and techniques. He had a family business of puppetry and doll making.
He began his carrier making puppets for children television, including a stint with Jim Henson and Sesame street .He initially worked as a creative director in Australian Children television,
He began his carrier making puppets for children television, including a stint with Jim Henson and Sesame street .He initially worked as a creative director in Australian Children television,
before moving to america to work there in film and advertising. He used to make realistic props for advertising companies and films which include Shirls Neighbourhood,the Labyrinth and the story teller .Since 1996, he has devoted himself full time to his art.When he moved to fine arts in 1996 , Ron started collaborating with his mother-in-law , Paula Rego, to produce small figures intended to be a part of a tableau showing at the Hayward Gallery.
He has studied in the Royal Academy Of Arts .
Mueck’s entree into the art world occurred almost accidentally in 1996, after a model his mother-in-law had asked him to create captured the attention of advertising tycoon Charles Saatchi. Soon after his work was then included in Saatchi’s controversial exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy, London, which travelled to Berlin and Brooklyn, New York, and marked Mueck’s debut as an artist. Mueck participated in the 2001 Venice Biennale from which his work Boy emerged as a talking point. He presently lives and works in London.He became popular and well known to the world after he made the sculpture of his late father titled as "dead dad".
Ron Mueck Dead Dad (detail) 1996-7. Silicone, polyurethane, styrene, synthetic hair, ed. 1/1. Stefan T. Edlis Collection, Chicago.
EDUCATION
He has studied in the Royal Academy Of Arts .
HIS ENTERY IN THE WORLD OF ART
Mueck’s entree into the art world occurred almost accidentally in 1996, after a model his mother-in-law had asked him to create captured the attention of advertising tycoon Charles Saatchi. Soon after his work was then included in Saatchi’s controversial exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy, London, which travelled to Berlin and Brooklyn, New York, and marked Mueck’s debut as an artist. Mueck participated in the 2001 Venice Biennale from which his work Boy emerged as a talking point. He presently lives and works in London.He became popular and well known to the world after he made the sculpture of his late father titled as "dead dad".
Ron Mueck Dead Dad (detail) 1996-7. Silicone, polyurethane, styrene, synthetic hair, ed. 1/1. Stefan T. Edlis Collection, Chicago.
WORK
The first thing one notices about Ron Mueck's sculptures is the hyper-realism ... it looks like real skin that you want to reach out and touch. The wrinkles, hair, and even the stubble are all very convincing. However, in Mueck's sculpture, it's the range of sizes and scale that transforms this work - since everything is either smaller or larger than life, the scale alters the realism and entices the viewer with a sense of wonder.
Mueck sculptures responds to the minute details of the human body, playing with scale to produce engrossing visual images
( a style known as hyper realism )
Mueck spends a long time, sometimes more than a year, creating each sculpture. the scale of every subject comes with the idea.
Listen to a live recording of commentator and historian Richard Wolfe, author of New Zealand Portraits, discussing Ron Mueck's Mask II.
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Listen to a live recording of commentator and historian Richard Wolfe, author of New Zealand Portraits, discussing Ron Mueck's Mask II.
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Listen to a live recording of volunteer guide Nicci Best's floortalk discussing Ron Mueck's Two women.
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SUBJECT MATTER
His subject matter is deeply private, and is often concerned with people's unspoken thoughts and feelings. Ron looks at the object in a very different way he thinks, the way one looks at something is very much important rather than the way it actually is . he does the salvish recreation of reality depicting every stage of life from birth to old age till death.His work has a powerful psychological range, focusing not only on universal experiences like birth, life and death but on emotional states such as isolation, fear and tenderness. His startling manipulations of scale are key to our experience of each work.
Mueck does not want to depict our life as something better than it actually is, he wants us to see all the realities, the genuine struggles and real issues in his work, he does not want to make fake interpretations that hide the truth, sweeping it under the rug of dishonesty.
The greatest asset in ron's creative arsenal is his abbility to balance the realism with the unreal aspects of his work, how he is able to adjust the perfect amount of realism and surrealism without compromising either of two .
A sculpture entitled "Mask II" by sculptor Ron Mueck, at the San Ildefonso Museum in Mexico City, on September 20, 2011
Closeup of "Woman with Sticks" at the Hauser & Wirth gallery on April 16, 2012 in London, England.
Ron Mueck's "Mask", on display at the Saatchi Gallery in London, on April 14, 2003.
A closer view of "Youth" by Ron Mueck, at the National Gallery of Victoria on January 21, 2010 in Melbourne, Australia.
Ron Mueck Wild man (detail) 2005. Polyester resin, fibreglass, silicone, aluminium, wood, horse hair, synthetic hair Chriat church art gallery 2010.
Detail from Ron Mueck, 'Pregnant Woman', 2002© Ron Mueck, Courtesy Anthony d'Offay, London.
WORK MATERIAL
His earlier pieces were sculpted with fiber glass,but recently he has begun to work with silicon, which is more flexible and allows greater ease in shaping body parts and implanting hair.
- nylon line
- resin
- fiberglass
- silicon
- polyster
- mix media
- silicon rubber
- synthetic polymer paint
- polyurethane
- styrens
- aluminium
- wood
- horse hair
- synthetic hair
- steel
- plywood
- clay
WORK PROCESS
EXHIBITIONS
Based in London, Ron Mueck has had highly acclaimed exhibitions around the world from Japan to Australia, New Zealand and Mexico, but shows of his new work in Europe have not been frequent occurrences.
ron mueck was a collaboration between the Scottish National Gallery of Modern art and the Foundation Cartier in Paris, aswelll as the Aros Aarhus Kunst Museum, Denmark,the Brooklyn Museum of ARTS and the National Gallery of canada, Ottawa.
- Sensation Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London in 1997.
- Courtesy Anthony D'Offay, London 2002.
- Foundation Cartier exhibition 2005.
- Scottish National Gallery 2006.
- Christ Church art Gallery 2010
- Hauser Wirth Exhibiton 2012 London.
- Foundation Cartier Pour I'Art Contemporiom 2013 .
- Moderen Art Museum of Fort Warth 2018.
- MC CLELLAND GALLERY.etc
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