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The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) presents the extraordinary sculptures of the Australian artist Ron Mueck in his first large show in Latin America.

Mueck has won an outstanding place in the world art scene in a relatively short time thanks to the impressive verisimilitude of the most incredible anatomical details of his personages that cause the spectator to reflect on the limits between reality and fiction.

From the fragile disturbing small-scale pieces to the impact of the details in the works of colossal proportions, Ron Mueck utilizes scale in his sculptures to provide emotive and expressive effects. The space also plays a crucial role in the interaction with the work and the action that it represents.

The monumental scale gives the spectator an advantageous position to study the expressions and to analyze each de-

tail of the body language. The majority evoke fundamental human experiences, like birth, childhood, maternity, childbirth, maturity, old age and death. Others offer an enigmatic narrative impregnated with metaphors and allegories.

The encounter with Mueck’s work produces a constant sensation of being an intruder or a snoop who is interrupting an intimate moment. His pensive figures capture moments of solitary reflection, with eyes open and a gaze lost in apparent indifference to the world around them, of the spectator who is observing them. Mueck is able to express in them the notion of introspection and masterfully reveal the level of sophistication of a thought.

Each one of the sculptures of Ron Mueck communicates a panorama of the rich and complex interior life that develops in that moment and challenges the intellect to think that is does not matter how real some images may seem, in the end they are merely representations.

CURATOR AND MUSEOGRAPHY: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey and Anthony d’Offay HALLS: 6 to 11 / First Floor ON VIEW: March 18 to July 31, 2011

Mask II, 2001 - 2002 | Mixed media | 77 x 118 x 85 cm | Ed. 1 plus P/A | Private Collection Youth, 2009 | Mixed media | 65 x 28 x 16 cm | Ed. 1/4 plus 1 P/A | Anthony d’Offay, London In Bed, 2005 | Mixed media | 162 x 650 x 395 cm | P/A | Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris Collection

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