I didn't realize David Mach was a scottish sculptor. Did you?
No I did not. Can you tell me more about David Mach?
Sure. His artistic style is based on flowing assemblages with mass produced objects.
What are his most famous works?
He had a piece called adding fuel that had600 car tires aranged as a replica of the Polaris submarine. Pretty cool.
Wow! That does sound very cool. Were his works well received by the public and critics?
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
David Mach
David Mach (born 18 March 1956) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist.
Life and work.
Mach was born in Methil, Fife.
His artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced 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