Edmund de Waal

Making

Lichtzwang
Theseus Temple, Vienna
30 April – 5 October 2014

In response to an invitation by the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Edmund de Waal made a piece to hang in the Theseus Temple in Vienna as part of a series of contemporary installations. There is only daylight there, through the great double doors, and it comes in through the skylight and ebbs and flows across the walls, changes. On the wall opposite the doors are two huge vitrines. They hold hundreds of small porcelain vessels, some have a touch of silver on their rims or bases. Lichtzwang takes its name from the title of a book of poems by Paul Celan, a man for whom language was a necessity and a terrible response to silence. The vessels are placed like words on a page, or people passing through a building, held only by 'Lichtzwang' - the pressure, force, compulsion of light.

Lichtzwang
Theseus Temple, Vienna
30 April – 5 October 2014

In response to an invitation by the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Edmund de Waal made a piece to hang in the Theseus Temple in Vienna as part of a series of contemporary installations. There is only daylight there, through the great double doors, and it comes in through the skylight and ebbs and flows across the walls, changes. On the wall opposite the doors are two huge vitrines. They hold hundreds of small porcelain vessels, some have a touch of silver on their rims or bases. Lichtzwang takes its name from the title of a book of poems by Paul Celan, a man for whom language was a necessity and a terrible response to silence. The vessels are placed like words on a page, or people passing through a building, held only by 'Lichtzwang' - the pressure, force, compulsion of light.

Lichtzwang
Theseus Temple, Vienna
30 April – 5 October 2014

In response to an invitation by the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Edmund de Waal made a piece to hang in the Theseus Temple in Vienna as part of a series of contemporary installations. There is only daylight there, through the great double doors, and it comes in through the skylight and ebbs and flows across the walls, changes. On the wall opposite the doors are two huge vitrines. They hold hundreds of small porcelain vessels, some have a touch of silver on their rims or bases. Lichtzwang takes its name from the title of a book of poems by Paul Celan, a man for whom language was a necessity and a terrible response to silence. The vessels are placed like words on a page, or people passing through a building, held only by 'Lichtzwang' - the pressure, force, compulsion of light.

Lichtzwang
Theseus Temple, Vienna
30 April – 5 October 2014

In response to an invitation by the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Edmund de Waal made a piece to hang in the Theseus Temple in Vienna as part of a series of contemporary installations. There is only daylight there, through the great double doors, and it comes in through the skylight and ebbs and flows across the walls, changes. On the wall opposite the doors are two huge vitrines. They hold hundreds of small porcelain vessels, some have a touch of silver on their rims or bases. Lichtzwang takes its name from the title of a book of poems by Paul Celan, a man for whom language was a necessity and a terrible response to silence. The vessels are placed like words on a page, or people passing through a building, held only by 'Lichtzwang' - the pressure, force, compulsion of light.

Lichtzwang
Theseus Temple, Vienna
30 April – 5 October 2014

In response to an invitation by the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Edmund de Waal made a piece to hang in the Theseus Temple in Vienna as part of a series of contemporary installations. There is only daylight there, through the great double doors, and it comes in through the skylight and ebbs and flows across the walls, changes. On the wall opposite the doors are two huge vitrines. They hold hundreds of small porcelain vessels, some have a touch of silver on their rims or bases. Lichtzwang takes its name from the title of a book of poems by Paul Celan, a man for whom language was a necessity and a terrible response to silence. The vessels are placed like words on a page, or people passing through a building, held only by 'Lichtzwang' - the pressure, force, compulsion of light.

Lichtzwang
Theseus Temple, Vienna
30 April – 5 October 2014

In response to an invitation by the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Edmund de Waal made a piece to hang in the Theseus Temple in Vienna as part of a series of contemporary installations. There is only daylight there, through the great double doors, and it comes in through the skylight and ebbs and flows across the walls, changes. On the wall opposite the doors are two huge vitrines. They hold hundreds of small porcelain vessels, some have a touch of silver on their rims or bases. Lichtzwang takes its name from the title of a book of poems by Paul Celan, a man for whom language was a necessity and a terrible response to silence. The vessels are placed like words on a page, or people passing through a building, held only by 'Lichtzwang' - the pressure, force, compulsion of light.