Hiper Realismo x Ron Mueck / Photo-realist Artist by Ron Mueck

Si hay algo que uno generalmente queda impresionado cuando ve una obra de arte es el hiper-realismo. La técnica te deja con la boca abierta, pero se supone que la fotografía liberó al arte de la responsabilidad de representar el mundo de manera fidedigna.

La excepción que me impresionó fue el escultor Ron Mueck, quien combina temáticas de la angustia de la vida con una ejecución técnica que te deja esperando que la escultura empiece a respirar.

Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne , Australia , to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie.

His work is lifelike but not life size, and being face to face with the tiny, gossiping Two Women (2005) or the monumental woman In Bed (2005) is an unforgettable experience

Mueck’s huge 4.5m crouching Boy was the centerpiece of the Millennium Dome in London and of the Venice Biennale in 2001. The artist’s work is becoming ever more intriguing, ranging from smaller-than-life size naked figures to much larger, but never actual, life size.

Consequently his hyper-realistic sculptures in fiberglass and silicone, while extraordinarily lifelike, challenge us by their odd scale. The psychological confrontation for the viewer is to recognize and assimilate two contradictory realities.