Sunday 26 August 2012

Art David March




 
 
David Mach

This mans work is not to every bodies taste but you can’t help but admire the ingenuity of the man. He uses every thing and any thing to create his instillation art. He uses old tyres, telephone boxes, wire coat hangers, old bricks and even matchsticks.


Davis Mach (born 20 March 1956)
 Scottish sculptor and installation artist.

Mach's artistic style is based on flowing assemblages from the age od mass production. Typically these include magazines ,newspapers, car tyres, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces.

One example of his early magazine pieces, Adding Fuel to the Fire, was an installation assembled from an old truck and several cars surrounded and subsumed by about 100 tons of magazines, individually arranged to create the impression that the vehicles were being caught in an explosion of flames and billowing smoke.
An early influential sculpture was Polaris, exhibited outside the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London in 1983. This consisted of some 6000 car tyres arranged as a life size replica of a Polaris submarine. Mach intended it as a protest against the nuclear arms race meant to stir controversy. A member of the public who took exception to the piece tried to burn it down; unfortunately, he got caught in the flames himself and suffered fatal burns.


In the early 1980s Mach started to produce some smaller-scale works assembled out of un struck match sticks.
These mostly took the form of human or animal heads and masks, with the coloured tips of the match heads arranged to construct the patterned surface of the face. After accidentally setting fire to one of these heads, Mach now often ignites his match pieces as a form of performance art.

Recently Mach has produced some permanent public works such as Out of Order in Kingston upon Thames, the Brick Train (a depiction of an LNER Class A4 steam engine made from 185000 bricks, which can be seen near a supermarket on the A66 just outside Darlington) and the Big Heids visible from the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
A second strand to Mach's work are his collage pieces. Partly as a result of having access to thousands of reproduced images in the magazines left over from many of his installations, Mach began to experiment with producing collages.
He has also produced many pieces of work made out of wire coat hangers.

Mach studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (now a school of University of Dundee), Dundee, Scotland from 1974, graduating in 1979, then at the Royal College of Art, London between 1979 – 82.
This is an instillation piece from his degree show at Dundee

Following several shows and public installations, Mach was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1988. In 2000 he joined the Royal Academy of Arts as Professor of Sculpture.

Out of Order, 1989
telephone boxes, steel, concrete
Twelve telephone boxes, first one upright, the rest gradually falling over like dominoes. The upright one should have a working telephone providing a constant public performance with a highly visible landmark for Kingston upon Thames. The telephone boxes are not just a parody of artists minimal boxes they also have a huge public recognition factor.


Figure by David Mach at the Charing Cross hospital, which is not in Charing Cross but in Hammersmith.


The sculpture "Down Under" is hanging over and into the promenade deck on Freedom of the Seas. The installation is made by the artist david Mach

Le Monstre Constructeur, Paris- David Mach


   

initiativestain wrote on Jun 29, '09
I am amazed with the creativity I have never seen anything of the likes of this before. The "Big Heads" amaze me.
starfishred wrote on Jun 29, '09, edited on Jun 29, '09
No he is not to my taste but he is very creative you have to give him that
here in Basel we have one calle Jean Tinguely a little different but much the same
you would like him look him up there is a whole museum to him here
forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 28, '09
bennett1 said
It is not "pretty" art but it is intriguing.
I know what you mean but the one 'down under' I find quite 'pretty'
forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 28, '09
nemo4sun said
have gone to feature him in past art sundays but could never find enough pictures of his work on the net
you did a great job
thanks Nemo.................pictures of his stuff are out there but yep they are hard to find, wanted one of the polaris submarine made out of tyres but couldn't find one that allowed me to save
bennett1 wrote on Jun 28, '09
Wow - I am loving this dude! What imagination! I am glad he is being exhibited and recognized. It is not "pretty" art but it is intriguing.
nemo4sun wrote on Jun 28, '09
i love his stuff
especially the gorilla
i have gone to feature him in past art sundays but could never find enough pictures of his work on the net
you did a great job

thanks

:)
acousticeagle wrote on Jun 28, '09
I'm like gob smacked...wow...amazing! Such imagination. That swimmer...wow! The phone boxes, incredible. How's that for lateral thinking in art, how his mind must go into 'free spin' to come up with these ideas! extraordinary. I might have to go look to see if there's anything of this artist's in Australian galleries.
veryfrank wrote on Jun 28, '09
It is definitely creative and he is very talented. I would view an exposition out of curiosity, but not quite my artistic preference.
forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 28, '09
you could probobly find him on the net.................I really like it when stuff is reused rather than dunped, hence my bath pond to be and my old toilet planter in the garden. I'm currently trying to find a use for the coloured plastic tops to plastic bottles, the bottles can be recycled and are collected but no one wants the lids.........any ideas?? Think I'm going to ask if any one has any ideas on that.
msowens1 wrote on Jun 28, '09
back in the 70's I knew a man who created [welded] metal animals from finds in the junk yards.... also very creative.... wonder what happened to him?
forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 28, '09
I'Hi Mo, thanks, I've known about this guy for a while but only just realised he was a student at Dundee...........a local trained guy :)
msowens1 wrote on Jun 28, '09
this is extremely creative ....

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