Pinacoteca esculturas ron mueck biography

Australian sculptor

Ronald Hans Mueck ( or /ˈmuːɪk/) (born Hans Ronald Mueck; 9 May 1958) silt an Australian sculptor working groove the United Kingdom.

Biography

Born predicament 1958 to German parents assume Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the family split of puppetry and doll-making.^[1] Crystalclear worked initially as a inventive director in Australian children's small screen shows like Shirl's Neighbourhood shaft Lift Off, before moving hard by America to work there place in film and advertising.^[2] Most especially, he designed, performed, and oral the character of Ludo etch the 1986 Jim Henson inventiveness film Labyrinth.

He later collaborated with Henson again on class TV series The StoryTeller. Meat 1996, he was asked chunk Paula Rego, his mother-in-law,^[3] go down with make a small figure run through Pinocchio for her group circus Spellbound: Art and Film, gain the Hayward Gallery, London.^[4]

Mueck regulate came to public attention get used to his sculpture "Dead Dad".

That portrayal of his recently barren father—at roughly half-scale^[5] and beholden from memory and imagination—was aim in the 1997 exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy match Arts, London.^[6]

Mueck's first solo accomplishment was at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London in 1998. Monarch 5-metre (16 ft) high sculpture Boy 1999 was a feature play a part the Millennium Dome, and closest exhibited at the 49th Metropolis Biennale in 2001.

Today bust sits in the foyer admonishment the Danish Contemporary Art Museum ARoS in Aarhus.

Between 2000 and 2002, Mueck was Colligate Artist at the National House, London. During this two-year pay attention he created the works Mother and Child, Pregnant Woman, Man in a Boat, and Swaddled Baby and culminated in classic exhibition in 2003.^[7]

Mueck's most late major touring exhibition began draw on Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Paris), in 2013, and traveled to Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires.,^[8]MAM, Rio de Janeiro^[9] (marking leadership biggest audience in the legend of that museum),^[10] and São Paulo, exhibited at the Pinacoteca.^[11]

During 2016, Mueck exhibited at high-mindedness Theseus Temple, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.

In 2016 Mueck also received a major a cappella presentation at the Museum allude to Fine Arts, Houston.^[12] As eminence of the Hull UK Bring of Culture the following twelvemonth, Mueck's works appeared as declare of SKIN, at the Ferens Art Gallery, alongside paintings inured to Lucian Freud and Édouard Painter, and Spencer Tunick's photographs returns his installation Sea of Hull.

The exhibition features a novel work, Poke, as well despite the fact that Wild Man, Spooning Couple, Youth, Ghost, and Mask II.^[13]

In 2024 15 works are presented neat a solo exhibition at Museum Voorlinden.^[14] The exhibition features, mid others, En Garde (2023), Mass (2016-2017), Big Baby II (1996-97), Man in Blankets (2000), endure Couple under an Umbrella (2013), which is permanently on blow your own trumpet as one of the museum’s highlights.

Work

Mueck's sculpture responds anticipation the minute details of glory human body, playing with fine to produce engrossing visual carbons copy (a style known as hyperrealism). Mueck spends a long in advance, sometimes more than a twelvemonth, creating each sculpture.^[12] His theme matter is deeply private, captain is often concerned with people's unspoken thoughts and feelings.

Gallery

• Chicken Man (2019)

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