BEAUTY IN THE MUNDANE

Posted by Mike Rigby

David Mach’s famous coat-hanger sculptures turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

From the man himself… “I had the idea to work with coathangers for a long time but I put off using them. They come from the same line as matches. They are like nothing, you pay them no attention, they have no value, if anything they are an irritant brought back from the dry cleaners. They’re cheap and throwaway. I stalled using them because I knew it would be a long, expensive, painful process to turn them into something. I was already involved in many similar processes, I didn’t need one more. However, after a while I couldn’t resist using them…”

There’s some more recent projects on his site, worth a look.

Posted on Monday, April 13th, 2009 at 9:53 pm by Mike Rigby. Filed under SCULPTURE. Follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.