Australian Sculptor Ron Mueck Exhibition Belfast Mac - Video

I'm down at the Mac Exhibition Centre in central Belfast to view what is probably the most remarkable set of sculptures I have ever seen. The 7 sculptures on display are by Australian sculptor Hans Ronald Mueck ( Ron ), who now works in London.
What makes these sculptures so remarkable is that they are coloured and that they are very graphic in their hyper realistic depictions . We have ordinary human beings clothed and naked. Some subjects are so realistic and graphic that they are probably not suitable viewing for the sensitive or for children. I found some of them troubling and unnerving. Dead Dad, was like looking at someone naked and dead on a mortuary slab. They were completely exposed. I had the feeling or revulsion. This was too much, in that Mureck's dad, should not be exposed to the world, all and sundry, like this. They should be given dignity in death. Mother and child was even more graphic. Here we have a new naked mother sitting totally exposed to the world, minutes after giving birth. The umbilical cord was still attached. I almost had to look away. I had the thought that maybe some things are simply not for public gaze or spectacle. Maybe I'm being too sensitive.
( Even Youtube has placed an Age Restriction on this video. This means that i cannot monetize it. )
Mureck reminds me of Leonardo di Vinci. Both artist and sculptor are fascinated by the dead and the detail and workings of the human body. Leonardo largely expressed his interest in painting. Mureck gives us bone, sinew, muscle, veins, hair, wrinkles in unsurpassed 3D detail.

Australian sculptor Hans Ronald Mueck ( Ron )
Born in 1958 to German parents in Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck grew up in the family business of puppetry and doll-making. He worked initially as a creative director in Australian children's television, before moving to America to work there in film and advertising. In 1996, he was asked by Paula Rego, his mother-in-law, to make a small figure of Pinocchio for her group exhibition Spellbound: Art and Film, at the Hayward Gallery, London and it all took off from there.
Work
'Mueck's sculpture responds to the minute details of the human body, playing with scale to produce engrossing visual images (a style known as hyperrealism). Mueck spends a long time, sometimes more than a year, creating each sculpture. His subject matter is deeply private, and is often concerned with people's unspoken thoughts and feelings.'