The collection XXX – The Museum of Forgotten History, with intervention by Maarten Vanden Eynde
(c)image: M HKA
David Nash is a sculptor who has been working with wood, trees and the natural environment for the past thirty-five years. His career has been an exploration of the possibilities of form in wood and trees producing a significant body of work in Britain and all over the world.
Crack and Warp Column is simultaneously classical and modern in appearance: they symbolise a distant past, but the artist’s reworking of the material brings it back up to date. Nash breathes new life into the trees, giving the wood a dynamic structure and transforming this hard material into fluid, flexible shapes. Vertical incisions are used to create a delicate column, which also manages to appear solid and familiar. In other words, this is a transient, monumental sculpture.