Ron Mueck Hyperrealism.

Mask II
(via Brooklyn Museum)

In Bed
(via Brooklyn Museum)

In Bed
(via Gautier Deblonde)

Mask I
Image shot whilst work was still in progress
(via Gautier Deblonde)

The last two beautiful photographs were taken by French photographer Gautier Deblonde. See more of Deblonde’s capture of Mueck’s studio.
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Inspired by the recent image post of Mask II by Graham Smith (aka ImJustCreative), I struck out to do a feature of my own on internationally acclaimed hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck, whose work has intrigued me and so many others for quite some time.

Born in Australia in 1958, Mueck began his career making puppets for children’s television, including a stint with Jim Henson and Sesame Street. Since 1996, he has devoted himself full time to his art. Through his detailed works, which are always either smaller than life-size or monumental, Mueck explores the ambiguous relationship of reality to artifice. His earlier pieces were sculpted with fiberglass, but recently he has begun to work with silicone, which is more flexible and allows greater ease in shaping body parts and implanting hair. –Brooklyn Museum

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p.s. Quite curious why an official Ron Mueck website can not be found??
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