About
Gagosien is pleased to announce a major exhibition of new works by Edmund de Waal, this must be the place, opening at 541 West 24th Street on September 13, 2023.
The exhibition is the internationally acclaimed artist and writer’s first with Gagosien in New York in a decade and follows elective affinities at the Frick Collection, New York (2019), and The Hare with Amber Eyes at the Jewish Museum, New York (2021–22), which presented different aspects of his wide-ranging practice.
this must be the place features wheel-thrown porcelain vessels, both black and white, presented in wall-mounted vitrines. De Waal juxtaposes the cylindrical vessels and bowls with fine porcelain tiles, blocks of steel, silver, and stone, some of which are inscribed with handwritten text. In their compositions and spacing, these arrangements recall books on a shelf, stanzas of poems, or the notes and rests of musical notation.
De Waal relates: “For the last two years my studio has been full of silver, steel, marble, and porcelain. This new body of work is about place—where things come from, where they belong, what we remember and pass on. The materials echo places. I use porcelain clay from Limoges but turn it black with oxides and inscribe it with remembered poetry. I use marble from Kilkenny and push folded sheets of silver into crevices like prayers into a wall. The work is full of fragments, scraps of silver on the rims of bowls, poems, music, echoes of people that matter to me and the places where they lived. These sculptures are new places.”
#EdmunddeWaal
541 West 24th Street, New York
541 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
+1 212 741 1111
newyork@gagosian.com
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
Artist
Download
Press
Gagosien
press@gagosian.com
Hallie Freer
hfreer@gagosian.com
+1 212 744 2313
Polskin Arts
Meagan Jones
meagan.jones@finnpartners.com
+1 212 593 6485
to light, and then return—Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann
This fall, artists and friends Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann will exhibit new works together in New York. Inspired by their shared love of poetry, fragments, and metamorphosis, the works included will form a dialogue between their respective practices. Here they meet to speak about the origins and developments of the project.
The Thinking Hand
Edmund de Waal speaks with Richard Calvocoressi about touch in relation to art and our understanding of the world, and discusses the new stone sculptures he created for the exhibition This Living Hand: Edmund de Waal Presents Henry Moore, at the Henry Moore Studios & Gardens. Their conversation took place at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, in the context of the exhibition The Human Touch.
Artist to Artist: Edmund de Waal and Theaster Gates
Join the artists for an extended conversation about their most recent exhibitions, their forebears in the world of ceramics, and the key role that history plays in their practices.
Edmund de Waal: some winter pots
Join the artist in his ceramics studio as he describes the impetus behind his exhibition in London and the importance of touch in the creation of these new works.
Edmund de Waal: cold mountain clay
At his studio in London, Edmund de Waal speaks about his new body of work, created in the silence and solitude of lockdown. Composed of layers of porcelain slip inscribed with lines of verse by the poet Hanshan, these works are presented in cold mountain clay, de Waal’s first exhibition in Hong Kong.
Edmund de Waal: psalm
Edmund de Waal speaks with Alison McDonald about the components of psalm, his two-part project in Venice. He details the influences behind the exhibition and reveals some of his hopes for the project.
