Ron Mueck Sculpture

Ron Mueck’s Spooning Couple, currently showing at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh.

“And yet … all is not well. They are not as comfortable, as relaxed, as they seem at first. Both sets of eyes are open – without eye contact. They are thinking. In silence. About what? We can only guess. Her unclothed torso is turned away from his clothed torso. His naked lower half is against her knickers. The T-shirt is unironed, its white muted. The knickers are somehow indeterminate – the faded colour purple that results when whites get washed with items which aren’t colourfast. Romantic it isn’t.” The Guardian.

I’ve seen his ‘boy‘ at the Millennium Dome but his new sculptures look even better.