TY - BOOK AU - Gassmann,Gay AU - Grenier,Catherine AU - Storr,Robert AU - Othoniel,Jean-Michel TI - Jean-Michel Othoniel T2 - Contemporary artists SN - 9780714877600 (pbk.) : AV - NB553 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Phaidon Press Ltd. KW - Othoniel, Jean-Michel, KW - Art and Design N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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. This is an authoritative study of the artist's work, it includes intimate gallery pieces as well as monumental public commissions around the world ER -