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Image by Sean Fennessey
Image by Sean Fennessey
Image by Sean Fennessey
Image by Tom Ross
Image by Tom Ross
Image by Tom Ross
Ron Mueck - Mass, 2016-2017, synthetic polymer paint on fibreglass, (1-100) 550.0 × 1,487.0 × 5,081.8 cm (variable), National Gallery of Victoria © Ron Mueck
Inspired by the complex biological structure of the human skull – which the artist considers beautiful and extraordinary – Ron Mueck’s Mass celebrates a form that links us as a species. Mass is also a sombre study of mortality. Comprising 100 individual human skull forms, it calls to mind iconic images of massed remains in the Paris catacombs as well as the documentation of contemporary human atrocities in places such as Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebrenica and Iraq. The skull has been a potent symbol within the art of virtually all cultures and religions, including in Dutch still-life painting and the vanitas painting genre of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which served as a reminder of the transience of life. [National Gallery of Victoria]
Images by Sean Fennessey & Tom Ross [designboom]
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