Ron Mueck will exhibit his work for the first time in Ireland at MAC in Belfast. The exhibition features seven of his key works including Dead Dad, 1997 and his monumental work In Bed, 2005.
Mueck was born to German parents in Melbourne, Australia, in 1958, and has since lived and worked in the UK. Having begun his career in the world of film and television, Mueck’s move into fine art was initiated by a collaboration with Paula Rego at the Hayward Gallery in 1996.
A year later, his sculpture, Dead Dad, a three-foot representation of the artist’s dead father, was exhibited in the era-defining Sensation exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. This landmark group show established Mueck as one of the most important artists of his generation.
His meticulously sculpted figures, from the tiny to the monumental, each reflect an inner world of private feelings with unsettling power.
The artist’s intimate, understated meditations on universal experiences, of compassion, vulnerability, fear and loss, draw each viewer to their own reflection. Mueck has shown himself to be a major sculptor whose work elicits an immediate emotional response, by using all the traditional elements of his medium: pose, gesture, facial expression, scale and realism.
Ron Mueck exhibition detail
Location: MAC, 10 Exchange Street, West Belfast
Entrance: Free; suggested donation £5
Date: until 20 November, 2022
Time: 11am to 5pm