Video: Clothes hanger sculptures by David Mach
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The sculptor David Mach knows how to surprise, and he does it with the help of the simplest and most accessible objects. We have already read about it sculptures from matchesthat periodically burn out - sometimes by accident, sometimes at the request of the author and the audience. But besides matches, David has another favorite material - ordinary wire hangers for clothes.
David Mach sculptures consist of hundreds of standard metal clothes hangers: they are welded together around a plastic mold, which is then removed, and the finished piece is coated with silver paint. Among the works of the author: a huge gorilla, figures of an astronaut and a woman of easy virtue, a portrait of the sculptor's brother. “When I have ideas, I want to bring them to life, not just individual ones, but all of them,” says David Mach.
Here is how the author comments on his sculpture of an astronaut: “How much does it cost to send a man into space, make him walk on the Moon? I am delighted with these attempts, with the work of scientists, the intellectual elite, the sheer physical power of rockets. For decades, people have spent billions of dollars investing the best minds - and this is where I come in and portray the result of this effort with a material as cheap as a coat hanger."
David Mach is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. His pieces usually consist of cheap everyday objects such as matches, coat hangers, newspapers, car tires, and plush toys. The author graduated from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (now the school of the University of Dundee) in Dundee (Scotland), as well as from the Royal College of Art in London (UK). In 1988, the sculptor was one of the nominees for the prestigious Turner Prize. Since 2000 David Mach has been a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts as Professor of Sculpture.
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