venice biennale 2001. photoreport on the 49th art exhibition ..............................................................................................................................................

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ron mück (melbourne, 1958) the artist was inspired by the fantastic make-believe universe of star wars to persue a career in model making, he built up a fluency with materials which allows him to transform with confidence raw silicon into skin that feels alive, but his naturalism is uncanny. through an alteration of our physical relationship with his portraits, they are never life-size, their extraordinary size make them alien. mück seem to increasingly isolating them within their own. untitled (boy), 1999 untitled (baby), 2000

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