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source: edmunddewaal

Edmund de Waal was born in 1964. He studied English at Cambridge University and ceramics in both England and Japan. He is best known for his large scale installations, which have been exhibited in many museums around the world. Much of Edmund’s recent work has been concerned with ideas of collecting and collections; how objects are kept together, lost, stolen or dispersed. His work comes out of a dialogue between minimalism, architecture and music, and is informed by his passion for literature. In May 2014, Phaidon published a substantial monograph of de Waal’s work and practice.

Edmund has had major interventions in many museums and public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Waddesdon Manor, Tate Britain and the National Museum of Wales. In Autumn 2013, de Waal opened his first major solo show in New York with the Gagosian Gallery and installed a work for the new Asian Pavilion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. A commission of suspended vitrines, titled Atmosphere, opened in May 2014 for Turner Contemporary in Margate, which will hang in the Sunley Gallery until Februrary 2015. Another public work, Lichtzwang, is on display over the course of Summer 2014 in a neo-classical temple in Vienna’s Volksgarten. This marks the beginnings of an on-going relationship with the Kuntshistoriches Museum as de Waal prepares an exhibition for the museum itself to open in 2016. Other future projects include working at the Schindler House in LA in 2015 and with David Chipperfield Architects for a series of new works for London Victoria.

Edmund is also known as an author and has written widely on art and ceramics. His family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), has been translated into nearly 30 languages and has won many literary prizes.

In 2011 he was awarded an OBE for his services to art.
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source: alancristea
Edmund de Waal is one of the world’s leading artists working in ceramics today. He is best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels, with interventions at Waddesdon Manor, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Britain and MIMA. In October 2012 Alan Cristea Gallery will be holding its second solo exhibition of his work: a thousand hours, which will include his most ambitious work to date.

De Waal has two permanent installations in the UK: Signs & Wonders at the V&A and a sounding line at Chatsworth House. In September 2012, he installed his first piece of public sculpture, a local history, at the new Alison Richard’s Building at the University of Cambridge. Other future projects are planned at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Edmund de Waal is also widely known as a writer. In 2010, Chatto & Windus published his family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, which has become an international bestseller.

He was appointed a Trustee of the V&A and awarded an OBE for his services to art in 2011. In June 2012, he was made a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art. De Waal was born in Nottingham in 1964 and lives and works in London.
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source: portoeditorapt
Edmund de Waal nasceu em 1964, em Nottingham, Inglaterra. É um prestigiado oleiro inglês, professor de Cerâmica na Universidade de Westminster. Quando herdou uma coleção de 264 pequenas esculturas japonesas, em madeira e marfim, chamadas netsuke, decidiu escrever a extraordinária história da família que as colecionou e de como elas atravessaram os séculos. O resultado foi este livro, A lebre de olhos de âmbar, um sucesso mundial classificado como Livro do Ano pelo Economist e vencedor dos prémios Costa Book Award 2010 (biogra¿a), Galaxy National Book Award 2010 (estreia literária) e Ondaatje Book Award 2011.