EDMUND DE WAAL: ATMOSPHERE │ Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent → 8 March 2015

286 porcelain vessels in 9 aluminium and plexiglass vitrines Each: 11 3/4 x 118 x 9 3/4 inches (30 x 300 x 25 cm) Overall dimensions variable © Edmund de Waal. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery Photo Stephen White

17 porcelain vessels in 7 aluminium and plexiglass vitrines on a plexiglass plinth 22 x 39 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches (56 x 100 x 45 cm) © Edmund de Waal. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery Photo Stephen White

“Âr Sunli Gaḷri z trnsfwmd agn wɖ a brand-ny wrc, Atṃsfir, bî ātist Edṃnd d’Vāl.

…miniṃlist dsplez v cūli bytifl sramic objcts sductvli stradl ɖ old gap btwn āt n craft. Moḍnizm n ênčnt inflụnsz eḷgntli cmbîn in āt at wns bytifl n ʈwt-pṛvocñ.

Joṇʈn Jônz, Ɖ Gādịn

D’Vāl, hu gru p in Canṭbri, z rnând fr hiz wrc in sramics, in ptklr hiz lj-scêl insṭlešnz v pwṣlinveslz, n z ɖ oʈr v ɖ bestselñ Ɖ Hér wɖ ɖ Ambr Îz (ẇč wun ɖ 2010 Costa bîogṛfı̣wōd).

Veslz r sspndd in ɖ gaḷri, t capčr ɖ čenjñ lît.

Ɖ xpirı̣ns z trūli imrsv. Cm bac tîm aftr tîm, t si ɖ čenjñ ifcts v lît on ɖ wrc ovr ɖ sīznz, lî bac n rlax in frunt v ɖ wrc on âr mats.

Ɖ pìs z acumṗnid bî Bâšpīl, a plinʈ-bêst wrc, n a ny txtinsṭlešn spanñ ɖ intîr coridor ajêsnt t ɖ Sunli Gaḷri, fīčrñ qôts bî Trnr, Cunstbl, Bôḍler n Ruscin.

Ɖ wrc côinsîdz wɖ ɖ publicešn v a ny moṇgraf on ɖ ātist publišt bî Fîdn Pres.

Ẇn ʈncñ abt ɖ čenjñ landscêp v clâdz, I rmmbr Cunstbl’z bytifl letr abt layñ on hiz bac n dwñ ‘a grt dīl v scayñ’. Ɖr z no mr xtrōdnri plês t lc at ɖ scî ɖn ɖ Sunli Gaḷri at Trnr Cntmprri. Atṃsfir z mî atmt t mc a rspons t ɖs ʈrešhold btwn a bildñ n ɖ er âtsd. Sspndd in ɖ spês r nîn vitrīns holdñ 200 sml seḷdon n gre pwṣlinveslz. I hôp ɖe wl pṛvôc sm scayñ v ɖer ôn.

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Woč a film v Edṃnd de Vāl dscusñ ɖ wrc jrñ its insṭlešn. Drctd bî Jared Šilr n editd bî Jêmz Hyz”

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