Ron Mueck
Margaret of Bamboo Curtain Workshop sent me a few nice pictures of Ron Mueck's recent works, probably because of the Cartier exhibition just opened in Tokyo. Oddly I happened to come across again the exhaustive report by Amateur d'art of a larger exhibition of Mueck's works at Fondation Cartier ended in February.
I have visited Mueck's real works two times. The first encounter with several works in different scales (a kneeling man slightly smaller than life-size, a petit new-born baby hung on wall and the gigantic "Boy" crouching at Arsenal) at Venice Biennale in 2001 was stunning and fascinating. (His catalogue was one of my very few purchases at the event.) Then, another exhibition dedicated to contemporary art at Tokyo MoMA entitled "Continuity/Transgression" at the end of 2002. It seems in his latest pieces something more powerful in psychological terms is emerging, the pensive expression, the nudity, gesture and relation to the environment. Not just the size and the technique. His figurative mimésis could possibly be a mixture of classicism, pop, realism and surrealism to me.Mueck is an Australian living in London. Lunettes Rouges said Continental European artists are redefining contemporary sculpture, specifically the British artists (naming Anthony Caro, Richard Long, Bill Woodrow and Tony Cragg), counting Mueck, while trends of other modern and contemporary media are mostly American.
Note:
Plate 1 "Mask II" (2000) is a self-portrait of Mueck
Plate 2 "In Bed" (2005)
Images from Washingtonpost.com
1 Comments:
came across another australian artist who do very similar works: http://patriciapiccinini.net/wearefamily/
just that she creates monster more often. :>
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