Everything about David Mach totally explained
David Mach (born
20 March 1956) is a
Scottish sculptor and installation artist.
Mach's artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced
found art objects. Typically these include magazines,vicious teddy bears,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 lifesize 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 unstruck
match sticks. These mostly took the form of human or animalistic 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 a Mallard-class 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. So far, this has culminated in
National Portrait, a 3 m by 70 m collage for the
Millennium Dome that featured many images of British people at work and at play.
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. 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.
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