Original upload date: Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT
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We met Edmund de Waal in his studio to talk more about his making, Morandi and about the exhibition at Artipelag.
Edmund de Waal (b. 1964) is a British ceramicist, artist and author. To a Swedish aud
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ience, de Waal is mostly known for his best-selling novelwhich is currently translated to no less than 29 languages. In The Hare with Amber Eyes, de Waal explores the rise of his Jewish relatives to the social upper class in the late 1800s, as well as their subsequent fall inflicted by the ravages of the Nazis. In the international art world however, de Waal is known as a ceramic artist working in the borderland between craft and the genre-crossing aesthetics of contemporary art.
De Waal’s works have been exhibited at institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and Gagosian Gallery in London and Los Angeles. Last year he collaborated with contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in a project at Grazer Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria.
De Waal’s characteristic series of porcelain pots shifts the attention from each pot to their grouping as a whole, the created spaces between them and how the viewer’s gaze flows through the art work.
Artipelag’s exhibition is the first time that de Waal’s works are presented in Sweden and includes close to forty art works from 2012 to 2017. About ten of these works are new, stemming from a dialogue with the works of Morandi – de Waal has on numerous occasions emphasized Morandi as one of his greatest sources of inspiration. Furthermore, de Waal has produced a work directly on the gallery walls of Artipelag, relating to Morandi’s paintings.
