OBSERVATION: OB2

                                               

•                                    RON MUECK

                                                   HANS RONALD MUECK

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1958 to German parents in Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the 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 Australia.

                                                           EDUCATION

          He has studied in the Royal Academy Of Arts.

                                                        

                                            ART WORLD

In 1996, he was asked by Paula Rego to make a small figure of Pinocchio for her group exhibition Spellbound: Art and Film, at the Hayward Gallery, London.

Mueck first came to public attention with his sculpture "Dead Dad". This portrayal of his recently deceased father - at roughly half-scale and made from memory and imagination - was included in the 1997 exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Ron Muick's first solo show was at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London in 1998. His 5-metre (16 ft.) high sculpture Boy 1999 was a feature in the Millennium Dome, and later exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. Today it sits in the foyer of the Danish Contemporary Art Museum ARoS in Aarhus.

                                                   HIS PERSPECTIVE

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.

MUSECK 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.   



         

                                                        SCULPTURE

Mask
1997
Polyester resin and mixed media
158 x 153 x 124 cm

Ron Mueck, Mask II, 2001. Mixed media, 77.0 x 118.0 x 85.0 cm. Image courtesy Anthony d'Offay, 

LANDON

Two Women, 2005

Mixed media

33 1/2 × 33 1/2 in

85.1 × 85.1 cm

                                                               PUBLIC EXHIBITION 

• 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.