David Nash (artist)

Noon Column (2007) in the Coburg Hofgarten (photo 2008)

David Nash OBE RA (born November 14, 1945 in Esher ( Surrey )) is an English sculptor and country artist .

Life

Nash studied sculpture from 1963 to 1964 at Kingston College of Art , Kingston , from 1964 to 1967 at Brighton College of Art , Brighton, and from 1969 to 1970 completed postgraduate studies at the Chelsea School of Art in London. In 1967 he settled in Blaenau Ffestiniog , North Wales , where he still lives and works today. Nash has been a member of the Royal Academy of Arts since 1999 . In 2004 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire .

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Nash explores - from the early minimalist approaches to the present day - the artistic and artificial malleability of the natural material wood. For the design of his sculptures, he uses old wood that has already been used ( Ancient Table , 1983, 165 × 120 × 100 cm), seasoned wooden boards ( Oak Rack , 1995, 71 × 57 × 29 cm), freshly felled wood and still young wood, im Growing realized wood. "[...] There is hardly any form of material on which its imagination and symbolic imagination have not proven themselves."

In 1977 Nash planted 22 ash trees in a circle in his hometown . He pruned and raised their trunks and branches so that over the years their crowns would grow together into a dome. With this Ash Dome , he created a conceptual Land Art work of art that would last for decades.

In Germany, Nash can be seen in public with the work Noon Column (Coburg). At Noon Column, a light shines in the shadow of the sculpture every day at noon (in summer 1.20 p.m., in winter 12.20 p.m.), signs of the zodiac indicate the course of the year. David Nash, who is strongly influenced by Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy , deals with the original power of nature with this work of art.

Nash has exhibited, and often created, large groups of works on numerous occasions, most notably in Great Britain, the United States, Japan and France. His works are in collections of many important museums such as the London Tate Gallery , the Soloman R Guggenheim Museum , New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, or the Setagaya Art Museum , Tokyo.

Special exhibitions (selection)

• 1973: Queen Elizabeth Hall, York ; Oriel Gallery, Bangor , Wales
• 1987: Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
• 1990: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais ; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff ; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art , Edinburgh
• 1991: Center for Contemporary Art in Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (with Leon Tarasewicz)
• 1993: Manchester Art Gallery , Manchester ; Brandts Art Gallery, Odense
• 1994: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha ; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego ; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu ; Madison Art Center, Wisconsin; Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaidō ; Nagoya City Art Museum; Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Kobe ; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura; Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica ; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
• 1996: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst , Antwerp
• 1997: Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
• 2003: A selection from 30 years of wood carving , Gerhard-Marcks-Haus , Bremen
• 2004: Wooden sculptures , Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin
• 2006: Fencing wood , gallery in the Prediger and Johanniskirche , Schwäbisch Gmünd
• 2008: retrospective , Kunsthalle Emden ; Natural forms , Sinclair House , Bad Homburg
• 2009: Monumental Sculpture , Kunsthalle Mannheim ; Heidelberg Sculpture Park
• 2009: Blickachsen 7 , Bad Homburg spa gardens
• 2009/10: Solo exhibition and Iserlohn Art Prize, Villa Wessel Iserlohn
• 2010/2011: Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• 2011: Blickachsen 8 , Stadtkirche Darmstadt (4 works in wood) and Kunsthalle Darmstadt (two iron castings, including Chinese Iron Dome )
• 2013: David Nash at Kew Gardens (16 works)
• 2015: British Art + , Museum Art.Plus , Donaueschingen
• 2018: Museum Lothar Fischer , Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate
• 2018: David Nash. "Wood and Coal" , Flottmannhallen , Herne

Awards

• 2009: Iserlohn Art Prize

Photo gallery

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  Two Charred Vessels (1997). Sculpture Park Sculpture at Schoenthal

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  Threshold Column (1998). Sculpture Park Sculpture at Schoenthal

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  Large Sphere (2004). Sculpture garden of the Kunsthalle Mannheim

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  Black Column (2010). Oberursel , at the Taunus Information Center

Web links

Commons : David Nash  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about David Nash in the catalog of the German National Library
• Katharina Deschka-Hoeck: The language of the trees . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 11, 2008
• Nash at Annely Juda (with exhibition directory) ( Annely Juda Fine Art )
• David Nash RA - Royal Academy of Arts (with biography and bibliography, in English)
• David Nash 2009 at Villa Wessel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Nash, Marina Warner : David Nash: Forms Into Time. Academy Editions, 1996, p. 124.
2. ↑ Figure Ancient Table , 1983, 165 × 120 × 100 cm ( memento of the original dated November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Figure Oak Rack , 1995, 71 × 57 × 29 cm
4. ↑ Text on the exhibition in the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in: galeries.nl ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 23, 2013. 
5. ^ Coburg international artists' meeting on the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of the Archdiocese of Bamberg. Places .
6. ↑ David Nash - Wood Sculptures ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Georg Kolbe Museum, January 2004. 
7. ↑ David Nash: Pleasures and Necessities of Nature - Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 2008.
8. ↑ Trees - teacher of human perception - Kunsthalle Mannheim, May 15, 2009 (at: 'Kunst und Kosmos').
9. ↑ David Nash Exhibition ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2010.  
10. ↑ Museum Biedermann: British Art + ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with Nigel Hall, David Nash, Kenny Hunter, Matthew Radford, May Cornet