This group of new work is the second one-man show at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery for Ron Mueck, who came to public attention in 1997 when Dead Dad, a sculpture of his father's naked corpse, was included in the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition.

In these new sculptures Mueck's penetrating focus encompasses a gigantic Buddha-like man crouching contemplatively in a corner; a frail old woman in a hospital bed; a tiny baby; and an adult man the size of a baby, his chubby naked body curled like a foetus and swaddled in a nest of blankets.

Mueck has always used the scale of his sculpture to reflect different psychological situations. It was precisely the reduced size of Dead Dad which gave the figure its sense of vulnerability. These unnerving changes of scale coupled with the minutely observed detail invite speculation about the nature of reality as much as about the Lilliputian or Brobdingnagian dimensions to which these figures seem to belong.

Last year Ron Mueck made a gigantic 15 foot sculpture of a boy for the Millennium Dome Mind Zone, which will be on view until Spring 2001. Earlier work by Ron Mueck was recently shown in the Ant Noises exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.

Born in Melbourne in 1958 Ron Mueck worked for children's television from 1979-1983. He then moved to London and worked on film and television projects such as Labyrinth and The Story Teller. In 1987 he started his own company in London creating animatronics and models for the advertising industry in Europe. His first solo exhibition as a sculptor was held at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in 1998.

Ron Mueck lives in London.

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