Yesterday, I made way way rather randomly over to the Brooklyn Art Museum .We’d taken a nice walk through Prospect Park, delighting in the unseasonably warm weather, and there it was, the Art Museum, calling my name. It had been a while since I spent time looking at art…with the exception of seeing some stuff at Christie’s…and since there was a photography exhibit going on with the work of Annie Leibovitz I figured I’d check it out.
But in one of those lovely, unexpected turn of events, it turned out that, IMHO, the Liebowitz exhibit was crap, BUT another exhibit quite took my breath away.
That exhibit, by the sculptor Ron Mueck, was like nothing I’d ever seen. Mueck is famous …or at least known…for known for his extraordinarily lifelike, but often larger and/or smaller than life, renderings of his people who are almost all naked, with shriveled, snail-like members, and which are often placed in some state of utter misery, loneliness, desolating, abandon. There were just a few of these sculptures on hand at the museum, but lifelike is an understatement. I swear to you these works of art were breathing. I swear to you they were watching me. It was amazing, and I highly recommend you check out these odd, but exhilarating works.
If, you live in or are visiting Brooklyn, that is.