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.