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Ron Mueck’s Sculptural Work Arrives at Manchester Art Gallery

MANCHESTER.- Thanks to the ongoing tour of ARTIST ROOMS, the hyper-real sculptures of celebrated artist Ron Mueck will be on show at Manchester Art Gallery from 4 February to 11 April 2010. Ron Mueck’s sculptural work concentrates on the human form, tenderly portraying people in their most intimate, isolated and vulnerable moments. This exhibition features three of his remarkable, out-of-scale sculptures from the ARTIST ROOMS collection: Wild Man, 2005; Spooning Couple, 2005; and Mask III, 2005. Following the success of ARTIST ROOMS last year, 21 museums and galleries across the UK in 2010 will be showing 25 ARTIST ROOMS exhibitions and displays from the collection created by the curator and collector, Anthony d’Offay, and acquired by the nation in February 2008. ARTIST ROOMS on Tour with The Art Fund has been devised to enable this collection held by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, to