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12 October 2021

Spanning 25 years of Ron Mueck's career, this historical exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac features some of the Australian sculptor's most celebrated pieces plus never-before-exhibited works. Mueck's famous sculpture Dead Dad (1996-97) is on view in the U.K. for the first time since it shocked in the Royal Academy's storied 1997 "Sensation" exhibition, as is a new, as-yet-unseen cast-iron outdoor sculpture of a skull, Dead Weight (2021)which clocks in at a whopping one tonne. A moving figure of a young Black man with a stab wound, Youth (2009/2011), speaks to the urgency of addressing urban crime. From the small-scale to the monumental, the works on view evoke the gamut of human emotions and experiences.

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