David Mach. Precious Light

Will open on April 23 in Turin PRECIOUS LIGHT, the exhibition of the Scottish artist David Mach.
Presented in 2011 at the Palace of Arts of Edinburgh on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible in 2012 in Ireland and the Galway Arts Festival, Precious Light arrives at last, for the first time in Italy.
Curated by Patrizia Bottallo and organized by martin - martini international art, the exhibition will be staged in the halls of the Promoter of Fine Arts in Turin and will remain open until June 28, 2015.
PRECIOUS LIGHT is the result of three years of hard work that takes its inspiration from the Bible. More than 15 people have worked together with the artist to achieve sixty large collage, whose size goes up to seven meters in length, in addition to the monumental sculptures almost 5 meters high, as Golgotha.
An extraordinary epic contemporary. A proposal full of pathos, in which the biblical narrative, apocalyptic, colossal, is not a simple quote, but a rousing tale of a contemporary of his plays and his hopes. Through the representation of the sacred scriptures, using images from the mass media, places and real people extracts from magazines, newspapers, television and advertising, Mach tackles emergencies sociopolitical today with a language both current and classic, poetic and tragic.
Particularly impressed by the media bombardment of information to which we are subjected daily as Mach defines our era of "knowledge" in the sense that there is nothing of which we are allowed not become aware. "There are shown ridiculous and intimate details of private lives: while we eat we can see live scenes from Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya ... We are bombarded with in-depth reports on all sorts of dramatic events and we are spectators of terrible tragedies countries and cities that are swamped by the waves of the tsunami enormous and polluted. " But all this does not seem to bother the contemporary man, indeed triggers a sort of "greed" which causes our TVs are getting bigger and that the same images are viewed and magazines, and gained millions of views, on the web.
It is these images that constitutes the material of the huge and striking installations by David Mach, the world from which its visual inputs that flow into grandiose murals. The act of reducing all this bulimic binge of images in single figures, used to recreate the world, allows him to keep and apply your own filters, to keep his own opinion, individuality, and a more personal take on the world that surrounds.
And 'This is the vision that Mach has shifted in this impressive work on the Bible. As he himself admits, the idea of ​​dealing with biblical depictions initially had intimidated, prompting him to ask how he could never do justice to a theme so universal.
All historical references, the amount of works of art to be taken into account and the time it would take to create a work of this kind have led David Mach to establish a position, staring at a point from which to address this issue in personal way, new, contemporary to their own time.
Hoarding the influence of their own memories, as Catholic education imparted by the father of Polish origin and childhood passed within the Protestant Church, decided that the way forward is inherent in the symbolic power of the archetypes, because the Bible is the archetype by definition and uses the archetypes as concepts: "An archetype is something innate in self-awareness of the human race, in a sense expresses something of which we are all instinctively know."
PRECIOUS LIGHT consists of sixty-four collage in which are represented some biblical episodes; in advancing the project takes shape the need to set the different scenes in different places and real: the background of Daniel in the pit is Seattle, while the Plague of Frogs held in Belfast and the Ark of Noah, the work that gave momentum to the entire project, in Edinburgh. While the series Heaven and Hell are set in Istanbul, Paris, Tokyo, Pittsburgh, Athens, Havana, Disneyland and Dublin.
Mach in the Bible gleans the universal themes of humanity: love, joy, fear, hate, disasters, lust, hunger, sex, murder, murder, disease, revenge, miracles and more; themes that always dwell in the soul and history, and that is why inserting figures taken from current renews ancient themes, elevates them in recent history and perennial.
With almost quest'escamotage "Dante" the artist actualizes the stories of the Bible in his collage, appearing, as he himself points out, "... full of action as DVD paused reportage Movie or Television"; is the visitor press the play button and restart them as they too have become the material that composes them, are more visual and with a multitude of images to digest.
The impressive work done by the artist does not want to be confused with religious art, and is a tribute to an artist layman who looks to the Bible with great respect; admits he does not believe in God but it is certain that the understanding of the Bible teach us to live and, above all, to live well. Behold, the whole tragic tension of the images, even the violence that you can, at times, see, is aimed at teaching, almost one exhortation. A reverent tribute to a sacred text: the Bible is a source of inspiration for all mankind, beyond the beliefs and religions.
It shows the way with his compassionate look at the large group of figurines representing humanity placed in his collages; as he himself admits, this project has regained confidence in the human race: "What interests me are the people: I like them. My works are dotted with people who deal with precisely this: to be human. "
And as evidence of true respect with which he faced the Mach project PRECIOUS LIGHT, says that despite the amount of works is surprisingly large, believes are not sufficient to pay tribute to this amazing book and that the project is in progress for years to come.

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