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Ron Mueck

Biography:Born in 1958 to German family in Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the circle of family business of puppetry and doll-making.His career actually started as a puppeteer, which led him to work on several children’s shows. He was a voice actor in the trippy kid’s movie Labyrinth and made models for Jim Henson,before moving to America to work there in film and advertising.Mueck started his own animatronics company where he made pops for advertising companies. He became interested in making sculptures that don’t just look good on camera, but are hyperrealistic in person, too.

Art World:

Mueck shifted his focus to the fine arts in the mid-1990s.By 1996, he was completely committed to fine art practices, fully abandoning all the commercial jobs he held in the past.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 along with his sculpture "Dead Dad". This portrayal of his lately deceased father,at kind of half-scale and crafted from imagination, became included inside the 1997 exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. In 1999, he was appointed as Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London.

Work:

Ron Mueck eventually established himself as a unique author of fine art, Hyper Realistic Sculptors.This artist uses resin, fiberglass, silicone and other various materials to construct pieces emphasized by the keen likenesses of human beings. Ron Mueck plays with the scale of his sculptors, often making things a lot bigger or a lot smaller than what they logically should be..The naturalism of his work may be achieved with the astonishing level of detail in his pieces, but the entire Hyper Realistic Approach is undercut by Ron’s calculated play with the scale.Some figures will fill the entirety of a gallery whereas others stand no more than three feet high.

Subject Matter:

Many artists attempt to glamorize the real world via their representations and imitations of it, Ron Mueck does not need to depict our existence as something higher than it in realityis. He want us to see all the realities, the geniune struggles and actual troubles in his work, he does not want to make fake interpretations that cover the truth, sweeping it underneath the rug of dishonesty. Mueck frequently aims to offer his characters in key moments in their imagined lives, masking the mysterious moments which includes birth and death. Ron attracts upon his personal memories, desires and ordinary experiences as a way to portray his subjects with excellent compassion, injecting a little bit of his very own character into every piece he completes.

Statement:

He explains such a manner with the following statement: I never made life-size figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people every day. Altering the scale makes you take notice in a way that you wouldn’t do with something that’s just normal.

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