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Jean-Michel Othoniel. 11/14/22. Born in 1964 in Saint-Étienne. Lives and works in Paris. Since the end of the 1980s, Jean-Michel Othoniel has been inventing a world that ranges from drawing to sculpture, from installation to photography, from writing to performance. He first explored materials with reversible qualities such as sulfur and wax ...
Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 27 January 1964) is a French contemporary artist. He has worked in a variety of artistic media , including film, installation , photography and sculpture. In 2000 he designed a new entrance for the Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre station of the Paris Métro .
- Contemporary artist
- 27 January 1964, Saint-Etienne, France
Oct 7, 2021 · PARIS — At a ceremony on Wednesday, the artist Jean-Michel Othoniel joined one of the loftiest cultural institutions of the French state, the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and became immortal.
Jean-Michel Othoniel. Jean-Michel Othoniel is a contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media. Employing materials such as glass, wax, and sulphur, Othoniel explores ideas of material transformation. “I want to seduce you with their beauty then lead you to other themes,” he has explained of his work.
- French
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With a marked taste for metamorphosis, sublimation, and transmutation, Jean-Michel Othoniel (born on January 27, 1964 in Saint-Étienne and works in Paris) shows a fondness for materials with reversible properties. He started out, at the beginning of the 1990s, with works made out of wax or sulfur, showing them at the Kassel documenta by 1992.
Since 1991-- when, during a long voyage to Hong Kong, Jean-Michel Othoniel installed a temporary studio on the roof of the Museum of Contemporary Art to preparefor the exhibition “Too French”-- travelling has become a recurring part of his work. He retains a fondness for nomadic, producing pieces with glassblowers in Mexico, Japan and India.
Jean-Michel Othoniel creates resplendent, large-scale glass sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality below their shiny surfaces. “I want to seduce you with their beauty and then lead you to other themes,” he …
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