Recently my kid and I saw Ron Mueck’s installation at the Modern in Fort Worth. This Australian sculptor jars your senses by manipulating scale in his hyper-realistic figurative work. A few of his silicon pieces are miniature, so that you tower over the people and become as a beast yourself, but most of his creations are colossal. OMG OMG. Fucking amazing! The plastic breathes. This is extreme people-watching without regard for manners.
Alot of folks link Mueck with Patricia Piccinini, a sculptor who also creates pink, moist-looking, hyper-real sculptures, Aside from shock and sensation, however, Piccinini has a whole ‘nuther premise going on that references trans-human species and bioethics. A photograph of her piece The Young Family has circulated the internet for years as an urban legend.
I like this also in the vein of disembodied figures: Martin Klimas drops fragile Asian porcelain figurines and then photographs them as they shatter.
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