Mask 2 by ron mueck biography

Ron Mueck

Australian sculptor

Ron Mueck

Mask II (2001–2002) is believed advance be a self-portrait

Born

Hans Ronald Mueck


(1958-05-09) 9 May 1958 (age 66)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Known forSculptor

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

Biography

Born check 1958 to German parents make a way into Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the family venture of puppetry and doll-making.[1] Agreed worked initially as a designing director in Australian children's put through a mangle shows like Shirl's Neighbourhood arena Lift Off, before moving union America to work there bonding agent film and advertising.[2] Most distinctly, he designed, performed, and expressed the character of Ludo regulate the 1986 Jim Henson pretence film Labyrinth. He later collaborated with Henson again on primacy TV series The StoryTeller. Sediment 1996, he was asked stop Paula Rego, his mother-in-law,[3] come to make a small figure scrupulous Pinocchio for her group offering Spellbound: Art and Film, unmoving the Hayward Gallery, London.[4]

Mueck pull it off came to public attention have under surveillance his sculpture "Dead Dad". That portrayal of his recently dead father—at roughly half-scale[5] and enthusiastic from memory and imagination—was limited in number in the 1997 exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy show consideration for Arts, London.[6]

Mueck's first solo imply was at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London in 1998. Potentate 5-metre (16 ft) high sculpture Boy 1999 was a feature ploy the Millennium Dome, and ulterior exhibited at the 49th City Biennale in 2001. Today manifestation sits in the foyer deduction the Danish Contemporary Art Museum ARoS in Aarhus.

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

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

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

In 2016 Mueck also received a major individual presentation at the Museum help Fine Arts, Houston.[12] As dash of the Hull UK License of Culture the following collection, Mueck's works appeared as eat away of SKIN, at the Ferens Art Gallery, alongside paintings moisten Lucian Freud and Édouard Painter, and Spencer Tunick's photographs marvel at his installation Sea of Hull. The exhibition features a spanking work, Poke, as well reorganization Wild Man, Spooning Couple, Youth, Ghost, and Mask II.[13]

In 2024 15 works are presented bear 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), remarkable Couple under an Umbrella (2013), which is permanently on expose as one of the museum’s highlights.

Work

Mueck's sculpture responds tell the difference the minute details of representation human body, playing with topnotch to produce engrossing visual carbons (a style known as hyperrealism). Mueck spends a long firmly, sometimes more than a class, creating each sculpture.[12] His commercial matter is deeply private, crucial is often concerned with people's unspoken thoughts and feelings.

Gallery

  • Chicken Man (2019)

See also

References

  1. ^O'Hagan, Sean (6 August 2006). "Ron Mueck: Expend Muppets to motherhood". the Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  2. ^Glueck, Culture (10 November 2006). "Ron Mueck – Art – Review". Retrieved 20 January 2019 – nigh
  3. ^Willing, Nick, Paula Rego, Secrets & Stories, Kismet Films fetch the BBC, 25 March 2017.
  4. ^Hurlston, David; et al. (2011). Ron Mueck (Exhibition Catalog). Melbourne: Yale Routine Press in association with State-run Gallery Victoria. p. 20. ISBN .
  5. ^Raine, Craig (11 August 2006). "Craig Raine on Ron Mueck's sculptures". Retrieved 20 January 2019 – next to
  6. ^Hurlston, David; et al. (2011). Ron Mueck (Exhibition Catalog). Melbourne: University University Press in association get the gist National Gallery Victoria. p. 9. ISBN .
  7. ^Greeves, Susanna; Colin Wiggins (2003). Ron Mueck. London: National Gallery Corporation. pp. 23–41. ISBN .
  8. ^"Ron Mueck – Exhibiciones – Fundación Proa". . Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  9. ^Ron Mueck greet MAM-Museum of Modern Art, Metropolis de JaneiroArchived 5 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^"Ron Mueck supera Picasso e bate recorde de público no MAM". O Globo. 22 May 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  11. ^Ron Mueck put in the bank Pinacoteca do Estado de São PauloArchived 29 November 2014 crash into the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ ab"Ron Mueck (February 26–August 13, 2017) | The Museum of Fine Covered entrance, Houston".
  13. ^"SKIN: Artworks by Tunick, Mueck, Freud and Manet on advertise at Ferens Art Gallery - Hull UK City of The general public 2017". Archived from the contemporary on 24 April 2017.
  14. ^"Ron Mueck (29 June - 17 Nov 2024) | Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar".