Ron Mueck's Life Casting series: these larger-than-life castings have always seemed bizarre to me, a small gallery of them found here. I imagine walking through his gallery and locking eyes with giant figures only to get a sickening feeling in my stomach that I've done something completely wrong. This is not to say that I don't enjoy the pieces, but as I continue to define the grotesque, these images of naked people, patronizing looks and all, repeatedly come to mind.
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Something about the extremely realistic appearance of these is incredibly frightening. There's nothing severely distorted except their size, but they're still terrifying. I'd hate to be in that gallery at night....
I saw BIG MAN at the Hirschhorn several years ago. I kinda wish they'd put him in the sculpture garden - the empty gallery space doesn't do justice to the scale.
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