Playing with Fire: curator's talk
Playing with Fire, curated by Edmund de Waal, presents an unparalleled opportunity to experience the full range of Axel Salto’s work, most never before seen in the UK. In this talk, de Waal will reveal the richly imagined dialogue between himself and Salto.
‘Axel Salto is one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. He created a unique body of ceramic work that continues to fascinate me. His sculptures seem to be on the point of change: glazes are caught in flux. Vases swell as if to burst. He cared about the ways that patterns change course, shift energies, how an animal becomes a person, a man metamorphoses into a stag. Ovid ran powerfully through his life. That moment of change, transformation, is the moment when poetry occurs.’ Edmund de Waal