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RON
MUECK
A
Girl
30
March - 17 June 2007
CAC
Málaga, the City Council-run showcase for
contemporary art, presents Ron Mueck’s first
solo exhibition in a Spanish museum or art centre.
The show features a monumental sculpture of a
baby, five metres tall, made from polyester resin.
This is accompanied by maquettes, videos and colour
tests illustrating the creative process behind
the piece, as well as a documentary on the artist.
Open until June 17, the exhibition is sponsored
by local firms HCP & Arquitectos Asociados
and Uni-on casas con corazón.
A
Girl typifies the Australian artist’s habit
of using vastly exaggerated dimensions to portray
the human, whilst also clearly embodying influences
from classical sculpture, the most important,
indeed, practically the only, reference in Mueck’s
piece. Not in vain are pregnancy, birth and motherhood
among the recurring themes in a sculptural work
that approaches classical subjects from a modern,
uninhibited standpoint.
Mueck
is a clear and representative example of contemporary
sculpture, in which a salient feature is the masterful
use of scale. His universe is framed within the
hyperrealist tradition, by a naturalism that is
taken to extremes. Ron Mueck does not merely imitate
reality; he imbues his figures with the ability
to express feelings, persuading the viewer that
these are works with their own inner life and
psychological depths.
In
his text for the exhibition catalogue, CAC Málaga
director Fernando Francés confesses that,
of all the artists that have moved him, Ron Mueck
is perhaps the only one to have done so by modifying
reality towards exaggeration, whether by defect
or through excess. According to Francés,
Mueck’s works “generate a surprising
provocation in the viewer’s gaze, and they
do so not only by the dramatic quality and the
coldness that his figures reflect and represent,
but also by their modification of the established,
the way they break the laws of balance, changing
the natural status of people and things”.
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