Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for films. 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 1990′s, still in his advertising days, Mueck was commissioned to make something highly realistic, and was wondering what material would do the trick. Fiberglass resin was the answer, and Mueck has made it his bronze and marble ever since. While many artists strive to glamorize, and portray our world to be better than it actually is, others simply find art in our ordinary lives and our simple bodies. Mueck is one of those artists, and is now well known for his super realistic sculptures where he portrays humans at key stages in the life cycle, from birth through middle age, to death.
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