Many know his spectacular installationsmade up of blown glasswho have contributed to carving out a public image as a magician for this French visual artist since the end of the 1990s.
Like the dazzling Night Owls Kioskce cheerful decor of colored glass that Jean-Michel Othoniel created in 2000 at Place Colette, in Paris, for the Palais-Royal – Musée du Louvre metro entrance.
An artist exhibited in the most prestigious places
Member of the Academy of Fine Arts since 2018, Jean-Michel Othoniel has invested in the greatest museums in the world, from Little Palace au national museum of qatarpassing through the Palace of Versailleswhere he reinvented fountains, and the Angoulême cathedral, whose precious treasure he sublimated.
The beauty of flowers
From sculpture to installation or photography, from writing to performance, this complete artist draws and paints a universe with multiple contours. His passion for botany led him to become interested in mystery of flowerswhich he leafed out in a book on the occasion of an exhibition at the Louvre Museum in 2019 (The wonderful herbarium. Notes on the hidden meaning of the Louvre flowersed. South Acts). Flora also left its mark in this lithograph offered on the Catawiki auction site. It is a plum tree blooming like a string of pearls : all of Othoniel summarized on beautiful paper!
Jean-Michel Othoniel, Plum Blossom, 2022
Hand-signed lithograph, 2022
Estimation: 1 200-1 500 €
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