As part of the inaugural National Gallery Of Victoria Triennial, Australian artist Ron Mueck has unveiled his largest work to date, Mass. Inspired by the complex biological structure of the human skull – which the artist considers beautiful and extraordinary – Ron Mueck’s new work Mass celebrates a form that links us as a species. Mass is also a sombre study of mortality.
Comprising 100 individual human skull forms, it calls to mind iconic images of massed remains in the Paris catacombs as well as the documentation of contemporary human atrocities in places such as Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Iraq.
all images © Sean Fennessey
