It is a sculpture that you may have ever seen, I had already done it, but every time I see it it reveals something new to me. And it surprises me even more.
In these times that reborn babies are so fashionable, those hyper-realistic dolls that look like real babies, a sculpture as impressive and giant as Ron Mueck's with such hyper-realistic details (hair, skin tone, folds ...) reminds me of reborn babies, but beast. It measures no less than five meters.
In case you do not know him, Ron Mueck is an Australian artist based in London very interesting. "A girl", the giant baby, is one of his most famous works. She is a newborn girl, swollen, and with the cord still intact, which has traveled with her hyperrealism many rooms around the world, also in Spain.
Bodies, babies and pregnant or childbirth women are their recurring themes. The process of elaboration of the works is very complex. First, he models small samples to decide the position and gesture of the sculpture, then he goes to a medium dimension with the shapes already defined and just there, he elaborates, in parts, the definitive skeleton.
This skeleton is lined with metallic cloth and plaster, on which it models in mud to the last details such as wrinkles, cracks or pores of the skin. Then it is varnished and the work of superposition of the layers of polyester begins, on which paints what will be the texture of the skin.
To learn more about this and other works by Ron Mueck, we leave you an interesting video:
