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Realistic Sculptures
by Ron Mueck from Australia
http://www.artmolds.com/ali/halloffame/ron_muek.htm
Mueck,
Ron (1958- ) Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born
in Melbourne, Australia, to parents who were toy makers, he labored
on children’s television shows for 15 years before working in special
effects for such films as “Labyrinth,” a 1986 fantasy epic
starring David Bowie.
Muek then started his own company in London, making models to be photographed
for advertisements. He has lots of the dolls he made during his advertising
years stored in his home. Although some still have, he feels, “a
presence on their own,” many were made just to be photographed
from a particular angle—”one strip of a face,” for example,
with a lot of loose material lurking an inch outside the camera’s
frame.
Eventually Mueck concluded that photography pretty much destroys the
physical “presence” of the original object, and so he turned
to fine art and sculpture. In the early 1990s, still in his advertising
days, Mueck was commissioned to make something highly realistic, and
was wondering what material would do the trick. Latex was the usual,
but he wanted something harder, more precise. Luckily, he saw a little
architectural decor on the wall of a boutique and inquired as to the
nice, pink stuff’s nature. Fiberglass resin was the answer, and
Mueck has made it his bronze and marble ever since.
In the three years since his participation in Sensation: Works from
the Saatchi Collection, Mueck has posted shows at major galleries in
New York, Germany, not to mention selection for the London Millenium
Dome and now his work is the subject of a solo exhibition at that city’s
highest profile contemporary art space, Anthony d’Offay gallery.
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I have no further
information on this painting. Only the following:
The artist spent
100 hours for painting this picture (in MS Paint) AmazzzinG work! isn't
it?
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Paintings by : Jim
Warrens
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