Ron Mueck Wild Man

Wild Man

I love this sculpture! This giant nude man is so very intimidated by it's audience. People walk around this entire gallery viewing all these nude realistic figures and this one seems to be the only one that appears scared and vulnerable.

The skin of the wild man is magnificent as it has that opacity and marbled effect pale skin has. He also has a few freckles over his body as well as goose bumps and the hair above his arse crack and shoulders, as well as many other places.

I feel a man that has so much hair and the essence of 'real man', I suppose, shouldn't appear so scared, but here he is.

These feet were done so well. I loved the feet throughout this exhibition as the toes weren't always perfect as many people have (due to the squishing of shoes!), the hair on the toes, the toe and fingernails looked amazingly real. The wrinkles and crinkles in the feet and hands as well as the veins all resembled that of the real human body.

Ron Mueck @ Melbourne National Gallery

My visit to the Ron Mueck exhibition, for the second time, merely because on my first trip I discovered that we were able to take photos of the sculptures. I was shattered, because I generally live my camera attached to me and didn't have it with me that day assuming I'd be told to take it off. So I had to go back because I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take my own photos of his work.

The above and below works were fantastic as he has able to capture so much human emotion within these. I know that when I witnessed my grandparents slow 'decay' I suppose, it was traumatic and the piece In Bed clearly depicts the dying aged figure in a hospital bed. I have personally attached my own experiences with this piece and that's why I love it so much.

Dead Dad was absolutely amazing in that he has depicted an alive person in a smaller and what looks to be, dead state. It's scarily realistic.

I was loving the elbows, hands and feet in this exhibition, merely on how realistic they appeared and how difficult it would have been to get them to look so damn real. Particularly the colouring of the skin. That pale opaque pink skin, so very blotchy and sometimes freckly and he has captured that!

Some of his new pieces.

Those chicken feet looked great..sort of fake but still fantastic!

Placed on a blue painted wall. This had a very Christ like imagery attached to it, mainly due to the pose in which he has placed himself.