David Nash

David Nash is one of the most important living British sculptors. He has been represented in past ”Blickachsen” exhibitions by a number of different works. For Nash artistic work, nature and life form an indivisible whole. His preferred material is wood, and even his bronze and iron casts are developed from works in wood. He seems to plumb the depths of this material, letting its language flow into his work – the fragility of delicate young branches, the massiveness of whole tree-trunks, the characteristic way it works or breaks, the stability it can convey. If one looks at David Nash’s works in metal it becomes clear that in this medium, also, he seeks to develop a conception of nature, and the forces that move it. In the work on display in the Kurpark, ”Lightning Strike”, made of corten steel, the very title already suggests this. ”Charred Cross Egg”, also to be seen in the Kurpark, has the unmistakeable hallmark of a work by Nash. Through the black, charred surface – taken from an organic to a mineral state – the attention of the observer is steered away from the material towards the form itself.