This is a solo exhibition of Ron Mueck (1958 - ), whose works attract a great deal of
attention, to be held for the first time in Japan. Mueck who has a career of making
models for movies and TV programs makes full use of materials such as silicon and
fiberglass to express a human body in precise sculpture by means of a classic casting
technique. To complete his work, Mueck devotes himself completely to communicate
with materials and the motif in the long thorough process of production. In the world of
his work, realism showing in detail even hair and blood vessels under the skin is
interwoven with the unreality of sizes that are gigantic or minimum. You might say
that the world of his works is criticizing the nature of human existence in the
contemporary society. The world of MueckÅfs works, which cross the body and the spirit,
and the ordinary and the unordinary, confronts us vividly with the essential issue in
art, that is, the relation between "creation" and "the nature of human existence."
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