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10 April 2003 |
Becks Futures: mixed bag of "bedroom art": Carey Young interesting, Alan Currall funny, David Sherry painful to watch, the rest pretty so-so. The thread that ties them together looks like a kind of compulsive/obsessive behaviour.
Ron Mueck: the reviews and photos in the art press don't really prepare you for the varying scale of Mueck's scultures. We start (the video room being packed) with a swaddled baby, which is lifesize to these non-parental eyes. Then: the mothers and child is tiny, as is the man in the boat, looking over your shoulder curiously.
The pregnant woman is 8 feet tall (which makes her larger than you might first imagine) - and you feel like a child looking up at a gigantic adult. She is so realistic* that you realise with a lurch that if she suddenly opened her eyes and turned her head to look down at you, you would not be surprised. Unheimlich.
* for instance: look at her toes, the joints white as she presses them down to counterbalance the weight of the child.
4:57:47 PM 
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