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18/12/2002

Ron Mueck

Museum of Contemporary Art - MCA, Sydney

Sculpture

This exhibition presents new and recent work by leading Australian-born, London-based artist Ron Mueck. Incorporating new sculptures created by Mueck during his recent residency as the fifth National Gallery's Associate Artist in London, this is also the first time Mueck's work, acclaimed throughout Europe and the United States, will be seen in Australia.

Mueck brings to his artistic practice over two decades of experience as a professional model-maker working in television, advertising and motion picture special effects - including Labyrinth and The Story Teller. He skillfully manipulates the scale of these compelling, often unsettling lifelike figures, complete with veins, stubble, even saliva, to convey complex psychological states in works that are either much larger or smaller than life-size.

Moving to the United Kingdom from Australia in the early 1980s, Mueck's first venture into the art world was in 1996, with the creation of a figure of Pinocchio for his mother-in-law, the renowned British painter Paula Rego. The piece was exhibited alongside her paintings in the major exhibition, Spellbound, at the Hayward Gallery, London. The interest generated by this work led to Mueck's inclusion in the controversial 1997 exhibition, Sensation, where he presented Dead Dad - a small-scale, hyper-real sculpture of the artist's father created from memory.

Mueck recently received both public and critical acclaim for his 4.5 metre crouching Boy which filled the cavernous space of London's Millenium Dome (2000) and later featured as the centrepiece at the Venice Biennale in 2001. He also recently had a solo exhibition at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC.
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MERIDIAN
Focus on contemporary Australian art
28 Nov 2002 to 23 February 2003

MERIDIAN: Focus on contemporary Australian art is a major exhibitions showcasing the work of 17 of Australias most innovative and challenging artists who have been practising professionally for at least ten or more years. Encompassing painting, sculpture, photography and moving imagery, the works produced by these artists are eclectic in style, presentation and theme.

The selection of artists and works has come out of extensive travels around Australian galleries and artists studios by MCA curators Rachel Kent, Russell Storer and Vivienne Webb during the early part of 2002.
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Dancing up country
The art of Dorothy Napangardi
11 Dec 2002 to 9 February 2003

Described as on of the most experimental Indigenous painters of Central Australia, Dorothy Napangardi has enjoyed an exponential rise to prominence in recent years. Presenting a selection of works spanning the past decade of Napangardis career, this exhibition represents her first major solo exhibition in a public space.

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