Pinacoteca esculturas ron mueck biography

Pinacoteca esculturas ron mueck biography: Ronald Hans Mueck (/ˈmjuːɛk/ or

Born in to German parents in Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the family business of puppetry and doll-making. In , he was asked by Paula Rego , his mother-in-law, [ 3 ] to make a small figure of Pinocchio for her group exhibition Spellbound: Art and Film, at the Hayward Gallery , London. Mueck first came to public attention with his sculpture "Dead Dad".

This portrayal of his recently deceased father—at roughly half-scale [ 5 ] and made from memory and imagination—was included in the exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. His 5-metre 16 ft high sculpture Boy was a feature in the Millennium Dome , and later exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale in During this two-year post he created the works Mother and Child , Pregnant Woman , Man in a Boat , and Swaddled Baby and culminated in an exhibition in In 15 works are presented in a solo exhibition at Museum Voorlinden.

Mueck's sculpture responds to the minute details of the human body, playing with scale to produce engrossing visual images a style known as hyperrealism. Mueck spends a long time, sometimes more than a year, creating each sculpture. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.