The ambition of sculpture
He taught himself art and became the most prestigious and ambitious hyperrealist sculptor in the world today, creating a variety of realistic sculptures.
His sculptures are more realistic than the real human body, and the details of the skin, hair, expressions, and limbs are simply impeccable.
The wrinkles of the old man, the pores on his face, the blood in his eyes, and the green tendons under his skin are all vividly presented in these huge works.
Breathing is almost audible, but at the same time their distorted shapes are oppressive and suffocating, with visual and psychological deterrent power.
Couple Under an Umbrella，2013年
Ron Mueck, a hyperrealist sculptor from Australia, was born in Melbourne in 1958 to German immigrant parents whose father was a toy maker.
Perhaps it is Ron, who was influenced by his father since childhood and has never received formal artistic training, because of his love, completely self-taught, and constantly improved his various sculptural skills, and finally became a dazzling star in the sculpture world.
Although Ron Mueck's realistic sculpture skills have declined in the 20th century, under the framework of contemporary art, he has opened up the field of hyperrealist sculpture, and the size and scale of his works are hugely different from traditional sculpture, making his work style unique.
Outside of the sculptures, Ron Mueck has little life. Compared to the more popular conceptual art, sculpture is almost like an old antique.
For Ron Mueck, the process of sculpture can be described as "work".
Big Man，2000年
Sculpture requires constant polishing, polishing, coloring, and then grafting the hairs onto the body one by one. Sometimes it is even like a machine, repeating the same action.
In Bed，2005年
"The premise of enjoying great happiness is that you must endure great pain."
In the words of Ron Mueck, there are too many restrictions on making sculptures, and you may not be able to achieve a lot of things that you want to do in the end.
But sometimes because of this limitation, or limitation, it invisibly persecutes the potential of a life and stimulates you. Just like we rebel, it makes people grow.
Two women，2005年
For an art creator, the process of creation does not make him more comforted or peaceful, but when he is really unable to create, he will fall into uneasiness and fear.
So in the sculpture industry, Ron Mueck has been working for decades. Even if it is a boring creation, he has been trying to break the "restriction" and add "rebellion" to the work.
Mueck, 2001-2002
He uses unparalleled perseverance to create these perfect and accurate hyper-realistic works, and he will also invite the audience to observe his works closely during the creative process, and check whether there are flaws in his hair, wrinkles, etc.
His pursuit of the truth, with traces of the classical spirit, is "real" beyond the reality itself, so real that it is difficult to accept and doubt.
Extraordinary Measures，2010年
He never sketches, he just sculpts them, and he hardly uses models because he is afraid of being bound by the image of models, as if he is sketching. What leads to the final making is just a human body, and the soul cannot be found.
As he puts it: "Technology is about expressing emotions, not just superficial technology." ”
Young couple，2013年
His characters, like real people, are emotional, complex and simple.
For the statue of his deceased father, the work caused great controversy
Ron Mueck's sculptural themes have always revolved around exploring the entire human life cycle, covering birth, adolescence, reproduction, middle age, old age and death, presenting the conflict, contradiction and pain in human life.
There are no exaggerated big eyes, no overly formal decorative language, some are just real character expressions, lyrical body language, conveying the real emotions of the characters, is frustration, panic and deep thinking.
Big Baby is a very realistic work of flesh and blood by Ron Mueck, and many young parents bring their children to visit in order to let them understand what they looked like when they were born.
Big Baby，2006年
Ron Mueck also sees his own work as a way to understand freedom, to resist decay, to resist mediocrity.
Therefore, his works often exude the pure instinct of the individual, and show a strong transcendence.
Woman with shopping，2013年
This makes us lament his powerful and strange style of work, as well as his dedication to things.
Standing Woman，2008年
Faith sometimes works miracles in persistence, and can turn the unthinkable into reality. It's not hard to make a decision, it's hard to put it into action and stick to it.
With decades of love and persistence for his dreams, Ron Mueck was created in 1999 at a height of 5 meters boy (giant boy), which caused a sensation at the 2001 Venice Biennale and now stands in the Danish Museum of Contemporary Art (ARoS).
Boy, 1999
There is no secret to success at all, and if there is, then two: the first is to stay the course and never give up; the second is to go back and look at the first secret when you want to give up.
Man in a Boat，2002年