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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.
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Prune Nourry: Mater Earth
Nancy Huston; Interview by Catherine Grenier; Illustrated by Prune Nourry; Preface by Bono
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Othoniel (Hardcover)
Catherine Grenier
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The first monograph in English devoted to Jean-Michel Othoniel,
this book follows the footsteps of a singular and secretive artist.
An artist who has a passion for all sorts of metamorphoses,
sublimations and transmutations, "Jean-Michel Othoniel"
(Saint-Etienne, 1964) has a predilection for materials with
reversible properties. His first gained recognition with a series
of sculptures made of sulfur, exhibited at Documenta IX in Kassel
in 1992. He is one of the few artists to combine a rigorous
artistic approach with a poetic sensitivity. Possessing a rare
ability to make use of the beauty of his materials, this volume
follows the evolution of Othoniels atypical approach. Beyond the
seductiveness of form, he creates a world inhabited by dreams and
enchantment, but also haunted by suffering and melancholy. The
artist, who entered into popular favour with his Kiosk for Night
Birds for the Palais-Royal Musee du Louvre metro station in Paris,
has exhibited widely and received commissions both in France and
abroad.
A comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist,
this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures,
paintings, drawings, and prints This lavishly illustrated
retrospective traces the early and midcareer development of the
preeminent Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), examining
the emergence of his distinct figural style through works including
a series of walking men, elongated standing women, and numerous
busts. Rare paintings and drawings from his formative period show
the significance of landscape in Giacometti's work, while also
revealing the influence of the postimpressionist painters that
surrounded his father, the artist Giovanni Giacometti. Other areas
of inquiry on which Alberto Giacometti casts new light are his
studio practice-amply illustrated with photographs-his obsessive
focus on depicting the human head, his collaborations with poets
and writers, and his development of the walking man sculpture,
thanks to numerous drawings, many of which have never been shown.
Original essays by modern art and Giacometti specialists shed new
light on era-defining sculptural masterpieces, including the
Walking Man, the Nose, and the Chariot, or on key aspects of his
work, such as the significance of surrealism, his drawing practice,
or the question of space. Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of
Art Exhibition Schedule: Cleveland Museum of Art (March 12-June 12,
2022) Seattle Art Museum (July 14-October 9, 2022) Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston (November 13, 2022-February 12, 2023) The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (March 19-June 18, 2023)
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