Ron Mueck

Daz · Apr 2006

The more I see of his work the more it inspires and blows me away.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...es.htm?startat=

Eric Chadwick · Apr 2006

Wow. Reminds me of Duane Hanson, except I love Ron's exaggerations. Thanks for the link!

Neo_God · Apr 2006

Yeah, I saw some of his work in D.C. a year or so ago, it's really great stuff, and much is much better in person.

swampbug · Apr 2006

Dang, that is awesome.

While we're at it, check this one out.

In bowling green, where I went to college, Tom worked at a local
animitronics company doing sculptures, I met him once by chance when i was a freshman. Every halloween he'd put one of a kind creations in a store window on mainstreet. Really lifelike stuff, but oozing with character and slightly skewed proportions, but highly realistic.

Check his site. I garentee someone would love to make his stuff in 3d.

(of course get permission first)

http://www.tskuebler.com/

PaK · Apr 2006

wow, that is incredible!

doc rob · Apr 2006

yeah, he's the shit. I saw "Big Man" and a few more in DC a while back. The detail is insane on that stuff.

JKMakowka · Apr 2006

That 'larger than life' stuff looks really creepy

HonkyPunch · Apr 2006

That's fucking nuts, man.
I envy this guy to no end, yet admire him more.

Xenobond · Apr 2006

dang! that lady is pretty creepy. It'd definitely make me feel like I was small. I wonder if anyone has peeked under the covers. ¬_¬

oXYnary · Apr 2006

He used to be involved with the muppets.

Oh, there is a story someone told me of an old lady yelling at one of his sculptures at the Guggenheim because it wouldn't give her the time or directions or something.

Edit. Opps it wasnt him, another contemporary artist who makes life size dressed models.

danr · Apr 2006

yeah, i was gonna say - ron mueck was usually inside the bigger muppets.

blankslatejoe · Apr 2006

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Dang, that is awesome.

While we're at it, check this one out.

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I once met a guy who looked exactly like that... he had a deformed lower jaw that was caved in and an enlarged ear/forehead...it was pretty saddening

anyway, on a lighter note.....these are pretty amazing.

Empty · Apr 2006

Yeah I know Mueck's work. It is kind of like Duane Hanson's stuff but blown up. Hanson would have you walk into a room and see some tourists staring at piece when in reality those tourists were the piece. Hyper Realism is awsome

http://www.kunsthal.nl/im/Duane_Hanson.jpg

[edit] haha leave it to me not to read the very second post.

CrazyButcher · Apr 2006

scary stuff, but amazing indeed

gauss · Apr 2006

yeah these kinds of guys are quite inspirational... if anything, for the attention to detail and absurd patience required to, say, individually thread human hair with needles on those people... unbelievable

more than anything i would definitely love to see mueck (and other's) work in person. i know the pictures don't do it any justice, and i'm tickled pink at how much he plays with scale.

Eric Chadwick · Apr 2006

swampbug, thanks for the link. Some of his pieces are really inspirational, I'd love to model one.

Delaney King · Apr 2006

Apart from being an wesome artists, Ron was actually one of the two performers of LUDO in the film labyrinth. Extra kudos!

luuuudddoooo, ddddooooowwwwnnnn.

Ron Mueck

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