Özet:

Sculptor David Nash, who started to use fire in his productions with his stove sculpture named Wood Stove made of wood in 1979, brought the destructive power of wood material and fire to the agenda as a strong contradiction in his works. The coexistence of wood with fire, which is a threat to itself, in the series of stove sculptures, is a polarization observed in the artist's productions outside of this series. This study focuses on David Nash's sculptures in which he deals with fire and wood material within a thematic framework related to the history of civilization. In the text, examples where Nash's wooden sculptures were burned to ashes were examined, and this state of objectlessness and the production process that eliminated the physical existence of the sculpture were emphasized. The ash, which the statue is transformed into by burning, establishes meaningful ties with the human and fire interaction in the history of civilization, as a relic pointing to the human existence and its effectiveness. This form transformation, which is encountered as the effect of natural conditions in the artist's other sculptures, was considered as a clue when examining Nash's sculptures made using fire and wood materials. The role of fire in the completion of the sculptures included in the work is discussed in the axis of the artist's loyalty to the process. The drawings that Nash made on paper using his charred sculptures and the photographs that are the only records of his sculptures turned into ashes are also discussed in the text.

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