Video: The beauty of burnt trees in sculptures by David Nash
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Someone makes woody out of burnt trees coal for kindling fireplaces and barbecues, and the British artist David Nash creates amazing sculptures, some of which are now on display in Kew Gardens near London.
Charcoal painting has come down to us from time immemorial. Even in primitive times, the first people painted scenes of their own mammoth hunt and other moments of life on the vaults of caves. Now such creativity is much more complex and meaningful, remember at least the amazing detailing of hyperrealistic portraits by Douglas McDougall. And Briton David Nash became the first famous artist to transfer charcoal from painting to sculpture.
David Nash's assistants search the forests and parks of the UK for naturally felled trees. Subsequently, the artist saws them into small pieces, but instead of using the resulting stumps as firewood, he constructs avant-garde sculptures from them.
However, these pieces of wood still have to burn! But not completely, to the ground, but only slightly. David Nash allows his sculptures to be charred a little in order to end up with matte black figures, which he then exposes in public.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (or simply Kew Gardens), a suburb of London and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is hosting the largest ever exhibition of charred wood sculptures by David Nash.
Here are several dozen of them in different shapes and sizes. And each of these works symbolizes life after death, the Phoenix bird, which, having burnt to ashes, receives a new birth, albeit in a completely different capacity.
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