Ron Mueck has always employed scale with psychological intent, creating uncannily life-like sculptures that are never actually life size. The life of "Boy," his largest sculpture yet with a bulk of roughly 16 feet, is documented here in photographs that reveal his eight-month-long gestation period in a London warehouse and his piecemeal journey by boat to the Venice Biennale.

Boy by Ron Mueck

Arts & Photography

Mueck, Ron

Individual Artists

Anthony d'Offay

<p>HardCover. Pub Date :2013-07-21 Pages: 244 Language: French Publisher: Thames Hudson Ron Mueck (French Edition) is published to accompany the major exhibition showing at the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain. Paris. from 16 April to 29 September 2013. Ron Mueck is creating three new works for the exhibition. which will be shown alongside with five other significant sculptures. This catalogue is the definitive reference book on Ron Muecks sculptures over twenty years of work. It features photos of his emblematic works . some of which have never been published before. and includes spectacular exhibition views of the new works presented at the Fondation Cartier. Analytical texts by Robert Storr and Justin Paton explore his work from the perspective of classical and modern art history. and invite readers to discover Ron Muecks intimate universe.</p>

Ron Mueck

Paton, Justin

STORR, Robert

FONDAT CARTIER

<p>Visitors to the 2001 Venice Biennale were highly impressed with the sculpture Boy--a child who stood five meters high--by the London-based artist Ron Mueck. Harald Szeemann called the sculpture the sphinx of the exhibition, and it soon became its landmark. The monumental, crouching figure of a youth makes a vulnerable, defensive impression and yet, its watchful eye seems to miss nothing. Mueck's human figures are always technically perfect, absolutely realistic, deliberately undersized or oversized. He first models them in clay and then takes a hollow cast which he fills with silicone or fiberglass. The finished sculptures show delicate networks of veins, fine hairs; they even seem to breathe. Their perfection is always in the service of content, however: Viewers are touched and set thinking by the emotional quality of figures like Pregnant Woman or Dead Dad--created by the artist after the death of his father. With great autonomous presence, exhibiting human features yet completely artificial, Mueck's artworks refer to fundamental questions and allow a wealth of associations.</p>

Greeves, Susanna

Blume, Eugen

Hatje Cantz Publishers

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