Ron Mueck

The hyper-realistic world of Ron Mueck is staggering to say the least. The incredibly lifelike sculptures that he creates are so perfect that if you were not careful you would mistake his sculptures as real people. Almost all of his work is either larger than life, or smaller than life. He forms these sculptures first by molding them out of clay then casting them with fiberglass and resin and silicone. He tatkes the time to put in every little detail that the body has so that it appears as perfect as possible, all the way down to each hair follicle. Many of his works contain figures that are usually nude and show complex emotions. He has made figures from babies to the elderly and everywhere inbetween. "Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images."