Lifelike: Ron Mueck and Evan Penny Works Arrive
By Paul Schmelzer
With the opening of Lifelike just a week away, more and more works are arriving. Assistant registrar Jessica Rolland caught this juxtaposition in Receiving the other day: Ron Mueck’s Crouching Boy in Mirror (1999-2000) adjacent the (suddenly nervous-looking) man in Evan Penny’s Old (No One – in Particular #6, Series 2 (2005).
Earlier: Installing Robert Therrien’s Giant Folding Table and Chairs
Lifelike, works based on everyday objects invoked a dreamlike world, such as Charles Ray’s Bath (1989)—a liquid-filled sculpture embedded in the wall that elicits a feeling of hovering above it."
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