Posted on 02/04/07
Replicas vibrate with life and soul
OTTAWA -- Is Ron Mueck a good artist or is he a gifted sensationalist? This has always been the question surrounding his work. There are those who say he simply wows us with his technical mastery, delivering cheap tricks and hackneyed psychology with crowd-pleasing appeal. Others see him as an important new link in the centuries-old chain of figurative sculpture, an artist revamping that tradition in light of new technologies of replication and simulation. After seeing his current exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, I have to say: I'm in the second camp.
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