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David Mach

On Saturday 4 June, David Mach ignited a matchstick-constructed head of Robert
Louis Stevenson, an event which may have not been appropriate say, for the Venice
Biennale, but given Mach’s international repute was all the more effective in
Edinburgh. Now aged 45, Mach still recalls with dismay the conflagration of
his work some years ago at the Hayward Gallery in London. His ‘Polaris’, constructed
of rubber tyres installed outside the Hayward, was set alight by a disenchanted
member of the public who was then unable to extricate himself from the flames
and died. Mach has been working in London for two decades. He has works currently
planned for exhibition in Korea, Israel, France and at home.

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