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Jean-Michel Othoniel was born in 1964 in Saint-Etienne.
He lives and works in Paris.
After having explored the possibilities of transforming sulphur, the artist discovered
the ancestral art of glass and...
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MARBREBLANC
DIMENSIONSVARIABLES
GALERIETUCCIRUSSO
Jean-Michel Othoniel was born in 1964 in Saint-Etienne.
He lives and works in Paris.
After having explored the possibilities of transforming sulphur, the artist discovered
the ancestral art of glass and its metamorphoses in Murano in 1993.
From that time on,
he has represented a magical and baroque world (a term that originally referred to a
pearl with irregular contours) with glimmering colours and materials in which necklaces, crowns, mandorla or oversized canopies signify a presence/absence of the body
like vanitas or the adornments of ancient sepulchres.
But beyond its formal and
seductive qualities, his art reveals a fragile beauty with tangible wounds, such as the
necklaces hanging from trees, which bear witness to the hangings, which took place
during racial segregation in the United States (L’Arbre aux Colliers, New Orleans
Museum of Modern Art).
The series Oubliés also evokes the memory of the dead and
departed.
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