Melbourne, Australia-born artist, Ron Mueck is currently exhibiting his first solo show of sculptures at the Foundation Cartier de l’art contemporain in Paris.

Presented are five of his startling sculptures of people, and these are larger than life-like; they are disturbingly real and shockingly unreal at the same time. Wild Man pictured to the right is a seated nude man that appears to be agitated and terrified. Like this man, all of Ron Mueck’s sculptures easily let the imaginations of viewers go wild with inventing the scenarios behind the anguished or blissful expressions themselves – a lot like reading personal blogs and grabbing a little glimpse of the private world of a blogger’s life – except with these art works, the stories can go as weird, wild and as far as your creativity can take you.

Foundation Cartier de l’art contemporain
261 bd Raspail, 75014 paris france (metro: Raspail or Denfert-Rochereau, lines 4 and 6), tel: 01 42 18 56 50 – open every day except monday – entrance: 6.50 euros – exhibition runs until february 19, 2006.

[photos from the ron mueck exhibition at flickr]