{"id":4809,"date":"2013-08-31T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T19:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2013-09-01T12:13:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T19:13:17","slug":"edmund-de-waal-gagosian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/31\/edmund-de-waal-gagosian\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmund de Waal @ Gagosian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/01\/arts\/design\/edmund-de-waal-prepares-for-an-exhibition.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Poetry Written in Porcelain<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by CAROL VOGEL\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/v\/carol_vogel\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">CAROL VOGEL<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:12px\"><img decoding=\"async\" itemid=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/09\/01\/arts\/01DEWAAL_SPAN\/01DEWAAL_SPAN-articleLarge.jpg\" itemprop=\"url\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/09\/01\/arts\/01DEWAAL_SPAN\/01DEWAAL_SPAN-articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Andrew Testa for The New York Times<\/em><\/div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 In England,\u00a0<a title=\"his site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edmunddewaal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edmund de Waal<\/a>\u00a0is a celebrated potter, known for installations of impeccably made vessels in soft shades of celadon or white, many of them permanently displayed in places like the\u00a0<a title=\"video about the Victoria &amp; Albert installation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/content\/videos\/e\/video-edmund-de-waal-signs-and-wonders\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a>\u00a0here. But in the United States Mr. de Waal is known primarily as a writer whose 2010 family memoir \u201c<a title=\"review of the book in the Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/30\/books\/review\/Buskey-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Hare With Amber Eyes<\/a>\u201d became a surprise best seller. Despite countless rejections from publishers, it ended up selling more than 1.5 million copies, has been translated into 26 languages and was recently optioned for a movie.<\/p>\n<p>Chronicling the journey of 264 Japanese netsuke \u2014 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none larger than the palm of a hand \u2014 that Mr. de Waal inherited from his great-uncle Iggie, \u201cThe Hare With Amber Eyes\u201d is a sweeping story that begins in Paris in 1871 and progresses through five generations of the Ephrussi family, whose collection of netsuke made its way to Vienna, where it was thought to have been confiscated by the Nazis, and decades later ended up in London. \u201cMy making and my writing is one thing,\u201d Mr. de Waal explained, adding, \u201cPots turn into words, and words turn into pots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like the netsuke, Mr. de Waal\u2019s own work is three-dimensional, tactile and painstakingly fashioned, but in his own Minimalist and modern language. He produces objects like wafer-thin cylinders, plates and pitchers, carefully arranged to tell a story. While collectors like the cosmetics heir Ronald S. Lauder and Sotheby\u2019s vice chairman Charles Moffett have purchased examples of Mr. de Waal\u2019s porcelain, there has never been an exhibition of his work in the United States. But after the dealer Larry Gagosian read the memoir, he was curious to see Mr. de Waal\u2019s art. \u201cThey\u2019re really poetic installations,\u201d Mr. Gagosian said of his decision to present a\u00a0<a title=\"Gagosian page for the artist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/artists\/edmund-de-waal\" target=\"_blank\">major show<\/a>\u00a0of Mr. de Waal\u2019s porcelain at his Madison Avenue gallery, opening on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/01\/arts\/design\/edmund-de-waal-prepares-for-an-exhibition.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Poetry Written in Porcelain By\u00a0CAROL VOGEL Andrew Testa for The New York Times LONDON \u2014 In England,\u00a0Edmund de Waal\u00a0is a celebrated potter, known for installations of impeccably made vessels in soft shades of celadon or white, many of them permanently displayed in places like the\u00a0Victoria and Albert Museum\u00a0here. But in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}