Ron Mueck | Mother and Baby | 2001 | Fiberglass resin, hair

Ron Mueck, my new idol. today i went to the Museum Brandhorst in munich, and i literally gasped when i came into one of the chambers in the museum and saw this quarter-life-sized extremely realistic sculpture of mother and child. i especially love the expression on the mother’s face, she looks like she’s regarding her baby as a stranger rather than the typical representations of childbirth as a scene where mother fondly embraces her child. fantastic work. i could even see the faint blue outlines of the ‘veins’ that the artist painted all across her translucent ‘skin’. BREATHTAKING. i exited the museum with a 0.99€ postcard of Mother and Baby sculpture with a VERY big smile on my face.