Acquisition Highlights
| Edinburgh Castle - Loch | |
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| David Mach b. 1956 Sculptor David Mach is best known for his large scale indoor and outdoor installations using ordinary household materials such as discarded magazines, used rubber tires, and recycled glass bottles. His sculpture is based on historic models such as the Parthenon or a WWII submarine recreated in a completely modern, life size scale and yet quirky and idiosyncratic way. Side by side with the sculpture are Mach's equally daring works on paper. Using a similar recycling principal he pieces together separate elements to create a complex whole. Mach hunts for and then assembles and collages hundreds of bits and scraps of images cut out from magazines, newspapers, books, maps, photographs, post cards, color photocopies to create a completely realized classically inspired landscape as seen here in Edinburgh Castle - Loch, 2000. It is a scene brimming with the comings and goings of daily life-buses, boats and crowds-- but it is also a remarkable collage of disparate fragments strung together to build a continuous and seamless whole. |