Ron Mueck
Born 1958 in Melbourne, Australia and based in the UK since 1986.
After working in the film and advertising industries for more than twenty years, Mueck began making sculpture in the mid-1990s.
In 1996, he made his debut in the contemporary art world when his sculpture Pinocchio (1996) was exhibited alongside paintings by Portuguese painter Paula Rego at an exhibition held at London’s Hayward Gallery. The following year, Dead Dad (1996-1997), a smallscale portrayal of his deceased father, was featured in Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and attracted significant attention. Since then, Mueck has presented his works at prestigious museums around the world, with recent solo exhibitions held in Seoul and The Hague in the Netherlands, and a solo exhibition in Sydney scheduled later this year. In Japan, Standing Woman (2007) is on permanent display at the Towada Art Center. Creating a single work can take months, sometimes even years, and Mueck has produced approximately fifty works over the past thirty years.
the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is a space for artistic dialogue and experimentation that places the relationship between creation and exhibition at the heart of its institutional project, working in close collaboration with artists.
Since its creation in 1984 by Alain Dominique Perrin, then-President of Maison Cartier, it has exhibited artists from all walks of life, breaking down barriers between practices and fields of thought. Built over the years through a groundbreaking international programme, the Fondation’s collection reflects its multidisciplinary nature and the breadth of themes addressed in direct connection with contemporary issues.
The Fondation Cartier carries out its activities and commitments with the desire and ambition to make contemporary creation accessible to the widest possible audience. Through exhibitions projects and a programme of encounters and debates, live performances and talks, it creates bridges between cultural venues and fosters a genuine space for multicultural dialogue.
With a new exhibition space, conceived by the renowned architect Jean Nouvel, on Place du Palais-Royal in Paris, the Fondation Cartier is reinventing itself in order to experiment and share with artists and audiences alike ever new ways of conceiving art.
