Go see this
All this talk of oversized sculptures reminded me of something I saw at GoMA the other week. You really have to go see it, it’s upstairs, and it is simply wondrous.
Ron Mueck, England. In Bed 2005. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
Photo courtesy of Queensland Art Gallery
I’d seen a work of Mueck’s before, at the National Gallery in Canberra. This one was of a woman in her full term of pregnancy, she was standing, and she was nude. I had walked into the gallery and been shocked not only by the gigantically-proportioned human I was faced with, but also because Pregnant Woman was familiar to me, having watched a documentary on its making in grade 11 art.
Mueck’s sculptures are truly amazing for their lifelike quality, and when you see his works in real life it is clear why he is referred to as a hyper-realist.
Really. Cool.
