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RON MUECK NOVEMBER 19, 2005—FEBRUARY 19, 2006 THE CATALOG The exhibition catalog presents the five new sculptures that Ron Mueck created expressly for his show at the Fondation Cartier. Several photographic essays were commissioned to follow the artist through the different phases of his work. In London, a series of photographs was realized in Mueck’s atelier over a recent six-month period, while in Paris the completed sculptures were photographed in their exhibition environment, the transparent ground floor of the Jean Nouvel building. An analytical text by American art critic Robert Rosenblum, lavishly illustrated with Mueck’s sculptures, studies his work from the perspective of classical and modern art history. Ron Mueck Hardback, bilingual French/English Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris/ Thames & Hudson, London-New York 22 x 28 cm, 120 pages, 100 color photographs Text: Robert Rosenblum Photographs: Gautier Deblonde; Patrick Gries Graphic design: Larry Kazal, Paris Publication date: December 20, 2005 Price: 30€ 6
RON MUECK NOVEMBER 19, 2005—FEBRUARY 19, 2006 BIOGRAPHY Ron Mueck was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1958 to parents of German descent. As a child he often made toys and this pastime soon became a profession. Mueck began his career in Australia as a puppet maker, both making and animating marionettes for children’s television. In 1986, he spent time in Los Angeles working in cinema before moving to London, to work for Jim Henson on Sesame Street and the Muppet Show. Their collaboration continued in the movies, where Ron Mueck supervised the special effects for two feature-length films, Dreamchild (1985) and Labyrinth (1986). In 1990, he set up his own business manufacturing models for the European advertising industry, and began working with fibreglass, which he continues to use today. Mueck’s artistic career per se began in 1996 when he made hyper-realistic sculpture of Pinocchio for the painter Paula Rego, his mother-in-law. Rego used the sculpture as a model for a series of Disney inspired paintings she made for the exhibition Spellbound: Art and Film exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. The sculpture was exhibited with Rego’s painting during the exhibition where it was noticed by Charles Saatchi who later commissioned Mueck to make a group of work for his collection. A year later, Mueck was included in the exhibition Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Mueck’s work, Dead Dad, attracted considerable attention. Entirely devoted to his artistic vocation for the past decade, Ron Mueck has participated in a number of group exhibitions and is collected by many important museums throughout the world. In 2000, the National Gallery in London invited him to be their Associate Artist for two years. This culminated in a travelling exhibition to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the Frans Hals Museum Haarlem and the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin. His monumental sculpture Boy was presented at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, gave Mueck a solo show in 2002. The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain exbihition is his first solo show in France. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 Ron Mueck, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (touring Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Brooklyn Art Museum, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) Ron Mueck: The Making of Pregnant Woman, 2005, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (touring National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane) 2003 Ron Mueck: Making Sculpture at the National Gallery, National Gallery, London Ron Mueck, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (Netherlands) Ron Mueck, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin 2002 Ron Mueck Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Directions: Ron Mueck, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 7
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