National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Ron Mueck
2 March - 6 May 2007

The exhibition Ron Mueck includes mixed media works on loan from the artist’s collection, major museums, and private collections. Mueck employs imitation and illusion to explore the ambiguous relationship between reality and artifice, creating figures that express the contradictions between the real world and the imaginary. The figures seem to be alive: every detail – veins, wrinkles, moles, body hair, rashes – is crafted to such perfection that the result is remarkably convincing and deeply troubling. The size of the works – always larger or smaller than human scale – is equally disconcerting.

After its presentation at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris (18 November-19 February 2006), the exhibition is travelling to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (5 August-1 October 2006) and to the Brooklyn Museum of Art (November 2006 to February 2007) before its last stop at the National Gallery of Canada, from 2 March to 6 May 2007.

Organized by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada, the Brooklyn Museum and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.