The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date
Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates
sculptures that explore themes of fragility,
transformation, and ephemerality. Using the
repetition of such modular elements as bricks
or beads, his work deploys various strategies
that hint at loss and despair – cracks in his
objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and,
early in his career, transient materials such as
sulfur. The most authoritative study of the
artist's work to date, it includes intimate gallery
pieces as well as monumental public
commissions around the world.
Specifications:
Format: Paperback
Size: 290 × 250 mm (11 3/8 × 9 7/8 in)
Pages: 160 pp
Illustrations: 200 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714877600
Gay Gassmann is a writer and art consultant
based in Paris, France.
Catherine Grenier is director of the Alberto
Giacometti Foundation in Paris, France.
Robert Storr is former senior curator at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York. Since a second term as
dean of the School of Art at Yale University, Storr
continues to teach as professor in the Department
of Painting/Printmaking.
