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Epiphanies : Jean-Michel Othoniel

  • Éditeur : Actes Sud
  • ISBN 9782330034177
  • Paru le 22 septembre 2014
  • 41,95 $ *
  • Arts

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Résumé

Catalogue d'exposition présentant les oeuvres du sculpteur, réalisées à base de verre soufflé, autour du thème des objets sacrés et de la spiritualité.

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In her essay, Catherine Grenier studies the long-held relationship between Jean-Michel Othoniel's work, spirituality and sacred artefacts. Since his early work the artist has always appealed to religious, popular and scholarly references. The Veil of Veronica, reliquaries, ex-votos, and votive finery have all inspired his exploration of the real, the body and their relationship, in often enigmatic and coded forms. Life's most extreme emotions from birth to death are glorified and spiritualised in fragile artefacts of a disturbing beauty. Through the poetics of intimacy, then of décor and seduction in his glass works, a world appears that confesses its wounds, reveals its ambivalence and resists wonderment..