Observation (OB2)

RON MUCEK

HANS RONALD MUECK

Mueck is a hyper-realistic sculptor, 

Born in capital of Australia (Melbourne) 

 in 1958 to German parents.

BACKGROUND

Born in 1958 to German parents in Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the family business of puppetry and doll-making.He worked initially as a creative director in Australian children's television, before moving to America to work there in film and advertising.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.

EDUCATION

He has studied in the Royal Academy Of Arts.

WORK

The first thing  I descried about Ron Mueck's sculptures is hyper-realism ... it looks homogeneous to genuine skin that you optate to reach out and touch. The wrinkles, hair, and even the stubble are all very cogent. However, in Mueck's sculpture, it's the range of sizes and scale that transforms this work - since everything is either more minuscule or more astronomically immense than life, the scale alters the realism and entices the viewer with a sense of wonder.

(Some of the examples of his sculpture's sizes are)

A sculpture entitled "Mask II" by sculptor Ron Mueck, at the San Ildefonso Museum in Mexico City, on September 20, 2011

 Mueck spends a long time, sometimes more than a year, creating each sculpture.

 Old Women in Bed

2000

silicone rubber, polyester resin, cotton, polyurethane foam, 

polyester and oil paint

24 x 94.5 x 56 cm

Techniques and Materials

Resin, fiberglass, silicone, polyester resin, silicon rubber, nylon, aluminium, wood, steel, mix media, acrylic, synthetic hair, synthetic polymer paint, polyurethane, styrens, cotton, horse hair, plywood,steel, clay, shellac, hard dental plaster, aluminium and oil paints.

 His earlier pieces were sculpted with fiber glass.

  Recently he has begun to workshaping body parts and implanting hair. with silicon, which is more flexible ,ease in

PROCESS 

 " MAKING THE BABY "

 point of view

Mueck’s subjects are mundane people, often in vulnerably susceptible states. His subjects have included newborn babies, an enceinte woman and middle-aged men.Mueck’s sculptures are some of the most widely acclaimed, prominent and identifiable works in the international contemporary art arena. Often unclad and suspended in states of self-consciousness, introspection or deep contemplation, his figures present both emotional and physical states of exposure. His work reflects everyday experience and  potently capture a sense of inner life, at times tense, tired, vulnerably susceptible, or threatening. The artist’s unique cumulation of profound realism and distortion draws on art history while grounding his work in the contemporary. Mueck does not optate to depict our life as something better than it authentically is. He wants us to optically discern all the realities, the genuine struggles and genuine issues in his work, he does not optate to make fake interpretations that obnubilate the truth, sweeping it under the rug of mendacity. Mueck often aims to present his characters in key moments of their imagined lives, covering the inscrutable moments such as birth and death. Ron draws upon his own recollections, dreams and everyday experiences in order to portray his subjects with extraordinary commiseration, injecting remotely of his own personality into every piece he consummates. His conceptions derived from explorations of the imagination or sodalities.