David Nash (artist)
David Nash OBE RA ( born November 14, 1945 in Esher ( Surrey ) ) is an English sculptor and land art artists.
Life
Nash studied sculpture from 1963 to 1964 at the Kingston College of Art, Kingston, 1964-1967 at Brighton College of Art, Brighton and graduated from 1969-1970 postgraduate studies at the Chelsea School of Art in London. He left in 1967 in Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales, where he still lives and works today. Since 1999, Nash is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
Work
Nash explored - from the early minimalist approaches to today - the artistic and artificial formability of the natural material wood. He used for the design of his sculptures both already used scrap wood ( Ancient Table, 1983, 165 × 120 × 100 cm), deposited wooden boards ( Oak Rack, 1995, 71 × 57 × 29 cm ), fresh cut wood, and still young, in Grow begriffenes wood. " [ ... ] There is hardly a form of the material, in which his ingenuity and symbolic imagination had not proven. "
1977 Nash planted in his home at 22 ash trees in the county. He circumcised and raised their trunks and branches so that their crowns together grew over the years into a dome. This Ash Dome, he created a scale for decades conceptual land art work of art.
In Germany Nash is seen with the work of Noon Column ( Coburg ) in public space. At Noon Column is lit every day exactly at noon (in summer 13.20 clock, 12.20 clock in winter ) in the shade of a light sculpture, zodiac signs refer to the annual run. David Nash, who is strongly influenced by Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, come back to this artwork deals with the original force of nature.
Nash has issued large work groups on numerous occasions and often created on the spot, especially in the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and France. His works are in collections of many major museums including London's Tate Gallery, the Soloman R Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, or the Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo.
Exhibitions (selection)
Awards
- 2009: Iserlohn Art Prize
Photo Gallery
Large Sphere ( 2004). Sculpture garden of the Kunsthalle Mannheim
Black Column ( 2010). Oberursel, am Taunus Information Centre