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Ron Mueck

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Even since the sixties the idea of getting into a form sculpture able to depict reality in such and instance that can mistake the eye, and play with the mimesis notion in such a way, perception by all means get deceived, has been explored.

In the contemporary work of Mueck this ideas get totally unbounded in a body of work that is a continuos surprise and further more a challenge to visual perception, psycological perception and emotive perception. Just imagine an enormous photograph of a child enhanced to be several meters high. you do? now make it in 3d.., that is what we are talking here.

Children of several floors, gigantic babies, tiny old ladies, make a powerful discourse about a sculpture much more next to a very 'photoshopized' image, even the shworooms look like and art piece with the Muecks in them.
In a world were the shallow and empty conceptual art is everywhere is really refreshing to see this guy work.
This book about the australian artist is in english and german, and contains apart from many if not all of his work in color, a catalogue raisonne list of all his produced work to the date of publication 2005.

Since I really have no interest in today's empty and pretentious art -instalation, conceptual and all those things, you know, that should bare a sign at the enter of the galleries: 'don't drive heavy machinery..' because of their boring charachteristics- normally my shopping list is only of photo books.

But this art book is something so beautiful, that even if you are not an 'art lover' -remember Mueck as the author of many cinema effects like 'Labyrint' prosthetics before becoming a force in the art world- you can have hours of joy and poetic interaction through images full of tenderness, mistery and force.

No book could do justice to seeing Mueck's art in person (for example, the unnatural scales of his sculptures can't be captured in a photograph), but for the Mueck fan, this is a great book. The photos are excellent and the text is informative.

As a fan of Ron Mueck's work, I was happy to see a compilation of his entire catalog (through 2005), along with information on his exhibitions, as well as permanent displays where selected pieces can be found.

The brief bio was interesting, as I had no idea of his personal background prior to reading it. However, as a student of sculpture, and a curious person in general, I was a bit disappointed with the lack of mention as to his process. I realize he isn't likely to divulge his entire body of technical knowledge to the general public, but a little more insight into it besides "he uses cast fiberglass resins" would've been wonderful.

All things considered, a great art book and conversation piece.

I know Mueck since "Movie Magic" in HBO. But his sculptures are astonishing creatures. His perfection in giant scale is amazing. The book is ok. I wished more photos and Ron working on them. Also wanted to see same photos with real human scale around the sculpture.

Surprising Imagination

Ron Mueck- who has set new records of the total number of the visitors at all the museum he held his solo show- is undoubtably one of the most notable artist who has been appreciated in all over the world.

The work "In Bed" shown as a main work in the exhibition "Collection of the Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain" at MOT_Tokyo, made a big sensation as a first introduction of his work in Japn.

The unmistakable characteristic of Ron Mueck's works is in, among others, the extremely "realistic" representation and the "unrealistic" size of the works. Numbers of delicate, minute and elaborate works of Ron Mueck portray also the internal working of human, and create an atmospherof unique world of the artist.

To accompany with his first major solo exhibition in Japan at 21st Centrury Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, his also the first collection book will be published in the end of April, 2008.This book of Ron Mueck will be definitely the best ever book which approaches to the transcendental works of the phenomenal artist!

Includes:
*The earlier works
*Photographs of Ron Mueck on work
*Interview with Ron Mueck
*Essay on Ron Mueck (Text by Craig Raine)
*Interview with Katsura Funakoshi



Ron Mueck: Profile
Born 1958 in Melbourne, Australia. Lives and Works in London. Started his work as a model maker and puppeteer for films and children's television in the late 1970's. After his work "Dead Dad" was included in the Saatchi collection in 1997, he has established his career as one of the most notable contemporary artists who gathers attentions from all over the world.

Exhibition: Ron Mueck'26 April -31 August,
at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa


Title: Ron Mueck
Design: Junichi Tsunoda
ISBN'978-4902943-31-3
Size: A4
88 Pages'Soft Cover
(April, 2008)