"A Girl" (2006)
Ron Mueck (Australian, b. 1958). Two Women, 2005. Mixed media, 33 1/2 x 18 7/8 x 15 in. (85.1 x 47.9 x 38.1 cm). Glenn Fuhrman Collection, New York 
In bed, 2005 (Rollers in the air - Close-up)This is some information on Délia Micu's presentation from 10th E. .
Mueck's early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children's television and films. Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry.
With the help of his mother-in-law, artist Paula Rego, Mueck got the breaks he needed. Rego watched him build a dragon sand castle for his two young daughters on a vacation to America and was amazed at what she saw. She asked Ron to make a model of Pinocchio for some drawings she was working on and the rest is history. Mueck is currently represented by some of the greatest galleries in the world, was invited to show at the 2001 Venice Biennale, and had one of his pieces recently sell for $800,000.
The sculpture “Mask II” captivates me. The hair, wrinkles, veins, and skin imperfections bring this sculpture to life. Beautiful and yet repulsively eerie at the same time. Decapitated, tilted on its side, eyes closed. It looks disturbingly alive. Lips moist, skin rosy, hair neatly combed. The five o’clock shadow and wrinkles in the forehead seem to signify a hard day. Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images. He is brilliant in so many ways. I don't even believe that such kind of statue maker would be existed in this world and the most interesting thing is that he had no formal art training.
With the help of his mother-in-law, artist Paula Rego, Mueck got the breaks he needed. Rego watched him build a dragon sand castle for his two young daughters on a vacation to America and was amazed at what she saw. She asked Ron to make a model of Pinocchio for some drawings she was working on and the rest is history. Mueck is currently represented by some of the greatest galleries in the world, was invited to show at the 2001 Venice Biennale, and had one of his pieces recently sell for $800,000.
The sculpture “Mask II” captivates me. The hair, wrinkles, veins, and skin imperfections bring this sculpture to life. Beautiful and yet repulsively eerie at the same time. Decapitated, tilted on its side, eyes closed. It looks disturbingly alive. Lips moist, skin rosy, hair neatly combed. The five o’clock shadow and wrinkles in the forehead seem to signify a hard day. Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images. He is brilliant in so many ways. I don't even believe that such kind of statue maker would be existed in this world and the most interesting thing is that he had no formal art training.
"MASK II", 2001-2002, The British Museum, Dimensions 1,600×1,200
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