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The groundbreaking sculptor´s most comprehensive monograph to date

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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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Gay Gassmannis a writer and art consultant based in Paris, France. Catherine Grenieris director of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation in Paris, France. Robert Storris 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.

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