Australian artist Ron Mueck presented his solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France. “Fondation Cartier ––is a museum of contemporary art at 261 boulevard Raspail in the 14th arrondissement in Paris, free daily except Mondays.
In addition to his previous masterpieces, the artist also presented three new sculptures that he had made especially for the event. Gautier Deblonde has made a new film about the talented sculptor and posted it online on YouTube. Showing the reclusive artist at his titanic work further exacerbates the sensuality and power of his sculptures.
Ronald Ron Mueck was born in 1958 in Melbourne, Australia to a family of German immigrants. He began his career as a sculptor by making puppets for a children’s television show. Since 1996, Ron has devoted himself entirely to the arts.
Ron Mueck has become known worldwide for his naturalistic sculptures of enormous proportions. Boy, a 5m sculpture (1999), was exhibited at the Biennale in Venice, Italy, and is now in the foyer of the Aarhus Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark (ARoS). Ron’s first sculptures were made of fiberglass, but more recently he has switched to silicone, which is more malleable and makes it easier to shape body parts and add hair.
Earlier exhibitions of the gifted sculptor have been shown all over the world, from New Zealand to Mexico and from Japan to Australia and, but in Europe he last exhibited in 2005.
Of the new sculptures, a nude figure of a middle-aged woman bends backwards under the weight of the bundle of branches she carries in front of her is noteworthy. The most evocative composition is called “Couple under the Umbrella” – an elderly woman with a short haircut in a dark blue covered swimsuit sits under a sun umbrella and affectionately looks at her companion, who lies next to her, resting his head on her thigh.
The sculptor managed to convey the full range of feelings that connects these two elderly people, all the truth of their lives and relationships – they seem frozen moments of life, and their skin and hair seem natural. All of the artist’s works are imaginative, but their obsessive truth indicates Ron’s search for perfection and acute sensitivity to form and material.
In his small studio in north London, Ronald Mueck works slowly and leisurely, making time an important element in his original work.
The giant human sculptures exhibition by Ron Mueck seems incredibly fascinating! I’m intrigued by the larger-than-life portrayal of the human form. Are these sculptures realistic or do they have a surrealistic touch? Additionally, I’m curious about the inspiration behind Mueck’s work and how he approaches capturing the essence of humanity on such a grand scale. Is there a deeper meaning or message he intends to convey through these sculptures?