Ron Mueck’s Untitled (Big Man) is a disturbingly real figurative sculpture of a sixty-something huge melancholic man in a hyperrealist style, seated on the gallery floor with his knees tucked up against his chest, and one hand supporting his head in a melancholic pose. He is fat, naked, hairless and bald, with his belly and genitalia exposed.
The corner of this gallery space is the sole and absolute environment for this lonely man and his final frontier in a way. This same space is a space of anxiety symptomatic of the tensions that both repulse and attract us to him. He’s stealing a hostile and distrustful glance at us from the corner of his eyes, seemingly wanting to be left alone. We understand that he is vulnerable, yet he’s threatening
The corner of this gallery space is the sole and absolute environment for this lonely man and his final frontier in a way. This same space is a space of anxiety symptomatic of the tensions that both repulse and attract us to him. He’s stealing a hostile and distrustful glance at us from the corner of his eyes, seemingly wanting to be left alone. We understand that he is vulnerable, yet he’s threatening