Permanent Collection
Ron MUECK
Mueck’s elderly lady is recreated with vivid verisimilitude, from her wrinkled and sagging skin, to her translucent veins and individual strands of hair. The stark contrast of her unrealistic scale, at around four meters, only serves to highlight the oddness of her presence. The Australian artist is known for sculptures capturing glimpses of universal human vulnerability, often in the form of aging or loneliness. Facial expressions that seem at once stern and kind, depending on the angle, and quiet, contemplative poses, in which the figures seem to stare into thin air, encourage the viewer to empathize and imagine.
Photo: Oyamada Kuniya
Courtesy Anthony d’Offay, London
Ron MUECK
Born 1958 in Melbourne, Australia; lives and works in London, UK. After working in children’s television, motion picture special effects and advertising for many years, Mueck attracted a great deal of attention for his tiny and uncanny realistic sculpture Dead Dad, which he made to come to terms with his father’s death. He has had solo exhibitions at the National Gallery (London, 2003) and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris, France, 2013), among many others, and his works are in the collections of numerous museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (US) and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (US).
2007
Mixed media
155×110×405 cm
