Un-real Realistic Sculptures

Introduction

Ron Mueck employs imitation and illusion to explore the relationship between reality and artifice, creating figures that express the contradictions between the real world and the imaginary. The figures seem to be alive: every detail - veins, wrinkles, moles, body hair, rashes - is crafted to such perfection that the result is remarkably convincing and deeply troubling. The size of the works - always smaller or larger than human scale - is equally disconcerting.
http://cubeme.com/blog/2007/10/31/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor-at-
brookliyn-museum/