Red Throne 39

As part of “Blickachsen 8 RheinMain” various works by David Nash – offering an insight into the range of his creative output – are on display in the main church and in front of the Kunsthalle in Darmstadt. For Nash a dialogue with nature is always the starting point for his designs. He works mainly with wood, and even his bronze and iron casts are developed out of work in wood. He uses wood that is either dead or already felled. The point of departure is always a consideration of their particular quality – their structure, their age and colour, their plasticity, their resistance to being worked, and their vulnerabilities. Using a chain-saw or simple tools he elicits from the wood its intrinsic inner structures, incorporating the on-going metamorphosis of the natural material into his work. From massive tree trunks Nash liberates not only the basic geometric forms of cube, sphere or pyramid, but also archetypes such as a boat, throne or cross, and natural forms such as an egg, a spiral or a seed. Through serial structural incisions he fans out a massive block of wood like a concertina, or transforms heavy tree trunks into As part of “Blickachsen 8 RheinMain” various works by David Nash – offering an insight into the range of his creative output – are on display in the main church and in front of the Kunsthalle in Darmstadt. For Nash a dialogue with nature is always the starting point for his designs. He works mainly with wood, and even his bronze and iron casts are developed out of work in wood. He uses wood that is either dead or already felled. The point of departure is always a consideration of their particular quality – their structure, their age and colour, their plasticity, their resistance to being worked, and their vulnerabilities. Using a chain-saw or simple tools he elicits from the wood its intrinsic inner structures, incorporating the on-going metamorphosis of the natural material into his work. From massive tree trunks Nash liberates not only the basic geometric forms of cube, sphere or pyramid, but also archetypes such as a boat, throne or cross, and natural forms such as an egg, a spiral or a seed. Through serial structural incisions he fans out a massive block of wood like a concertina, or transforms heavy tree trunks into