Artist Jean-Michel Othoniel Picks his Favorite Works on Artspace
Jean-Michel Othoniel
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Jean-Michel Othoniel's enchanting aesthetics revolves around the notion of emotional geometry. These are the most recurring motifs in the world, and they are the most recurring motive, creating exquisite jewelry-like sculptures in which relationship to human scale ranges from intimacy to monumentality. His predilection for materials with reversible and often reflective properties, particularly blown glass that has been the hallmark of his early history of the early 1990s, relates to the deeply equivocal nature of his art. Monumental yet delicate, baroque yet minimal, poetic yet political, his contemplative forms, like oxymorons, have the power to reconcile opposites. While his dedication to site-specific commissions for public spaces.
Monumental yet delicate, baroque yet minimal, poetic yet political, his contemplative forms, like oxymorons, have the power to reconcile opposites. While his dedication to site-specific commissions for public spaces has led some of his work to take an almost architectural turn, Jean-Michel Othoniel’s holistic sensibility further compares to feng shui or the art of harmonizing people with their environment, in his case allowing viewers to inhabit his world through reflection and motion.
Born in 1964 in Etienne, France, Othoniel currently lives and works in Paris; he is represented by Perrotin Gallery in New York. Othoniel's most recent solo …
Jean-Michel Othoniel's enchanting aesthetics revolves around the notion of emotional geometry. These are the most recurring motifs in the world, and they are the most recurring motive, creating exquisite jewelry-like sculptures in which relationship to human scale ranges from intimacy to monumentality. His predilection for materials with reversible and often reflective properties, particularly blown glass that has been the hallmark of his early history of the early 1990s, relates to the deeply equivocal nature of his art. Monumental yet delicate, baroque yet minimal, poetic yet political, his contemplative forms, like oxymorons, have the power to reconcile opposites. While his dedication to site-specific commissions for public spaces.
Monumental yet delicate, baroque yet minimal, poetic yet political, his contemplative forms, like oxymorons, have the power to reconcile opposites. While his dedication to site-specific commissions for public spaces has led some of his work to take an almost architectural turn, Jean-Michel Othoniel’s holistic sensibility further compares to feng shui or the art of harmonizing people with their environment, in his case allowing viewers to inhabit his world through reflection and motion.
Born in 1964 in Etienne, France, Othoniel currently lives and works in Paris; he is represented by Perrotin Gallery in New York. Othoniel's most recent solo shows include Face à l'obscurité at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Etienne in Saint-Etienne, France; Othoniel at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal in Montreal, Canada; and Dark Matters at Galerie Perrotin in New York. His works are included in the permanent collections of international art institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Courtesy of Perrotin
Born 1964
Hometown Saint-Etienne, France
Lives and Works Paris, France
Education
National School of Arts, Cergy-Pontoise, France, 1983-1988
Resident, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, 1996
Permanent Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
New Orleans Museum of Art, La Nouvelle-Orléans, USA
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
New York Public Library, New York, USA
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France
FRAC Aquitaine, France
Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Chanel Hong Kong, Chine
Chanel Los Angeles, USA
Filmoteca universitaria de Barcelona, Barcelone, Espagne
Métro de Toulouse, France
Lycée Arthur Rimbaud, Amiens, France
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Representing Galleries
Perrotin, New York, NY
Works Available for Purchase
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