David Nash
19 Jan - 17 Mar 2012
Black & Red : Bronze & Wood
19 January - 17 March, 2012
For his third exhibition at Galerie Lelong, David Nash has chosen a purely descriptive title: Black and red, bronze and wood. These are the two colours that he likes to contrast in most of his recent wood sculptures, and they dominate his new drawings and stencils. The black of charred wood had become a sort of leitmotif for David Nash and its encounter with bright red has taken it to new heights.
These two materials, wood and bronze, are his current passion, and he has established a subtle link between them: wood remains his material of choice, of primary creation, whilst bronze - which is sculpted from the wood - becomes a way of creating sculptures that play with the voids in wood (Inside/Outside) or a means of offering enduring and monumental strength to fragile structures. These new pieces are produced in a foundry in Wales, near the artist’s workshop.
In 2010, a rich exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England met with great popular success and allowed the scale, variety and coherence of the artist's work (he was born in 1945) to be appreciated.
In the bookshop, the gallery is presenting his pastels and charcoals on paper, plus stencils and multiples on wood.
19 January - 17 March, 2012
For his third exhibition at Galerie Lelong, David Nash has chosen a purely descriptive title: Black and red, bronze and wood. These are the two colours that he likes to contrast in most of his recent wood sculptures, and they dominate his new drawings and stencils. The black of charred wood had become a sort of leitmotif for David Nash and its encounter with bright red has taken it to new heights.
These two materials, wood and bronze, are his current passion, and he has established a subtle link between them: wood remains his material of choice, of primary creation, whilst bronze - which is sculpted from the wood - becomes a way of creating sculptures that play with the voids in wood (Inside/Outside) or a means of offering enduring and monumental strength to fragile structures. These new pieces are produced in a foundry in Wales, near the artist’s workshop.
In 2010, a rich exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England met with great popular success and allowed the scale, variety and coherence of the artist's work (he was born in 1945) to be appreciated.
In the bookshop, the gallery is presenting his pastels and charcoals on paper, plus stencils and multiples on wood.