Ron Mueck (Hatje Cantz)

MUECK, Ron, BASTIAN, Heiner, SCHUSTER, Peter-Klaus, GREEVES, Susanna, BASTIAN, Céline

ISBN 10: 3775713379 / ISBN 13: 9783775713375

Edité par Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2003

A propos de cet article

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Sculpture by Ron Mueck. Texts in German and English. Foreword by Peter-Klaus Schuster. Essays by Susanna Greeves and Heiner Bastian. Additional contribution by Céline Bastian. Includes a biography and a catalogue raisonné. 84 pp., with 23 four-color plates and numerous reference illustrations. 11-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Fine.

N° de réf. du vendeur 109096

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Ron Mueck (Hatje Cantz)
• Éditeur: Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3775713379
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783775713375
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: No dust jacket as issued
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Sculpture

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

Mueck's human figures are always technically perfect, absolutely realistic, deliberately undersized or oversized. He first models them in clay and then takes a hollow cast of which he fills with silicone or fibreglass. The finished models show delicate networks of veins, fine hairs, they even seem to breathe. Viewers are touched and set thinking by the emotional quality of figures like "Pregnant Woman" or "Dead Dad" - created by the artist after the death of his father. Mueck dazzled the public at the Venice Biennale in 2001 with his five metre tall sculpture "Boy". Harald Szeemann called the sculpture "the sphinx of the exhibition", and it soon became its landmark. The monumental, crouching figure of a youth makes a vulnerable, defensive impression, and yet, its watchful eye seems to miss nothing.