Two exhibitions
dal 12/5/2014 al 20/6/2014
Segnalato da
12/5/2014
Two exhibitions
Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong
For his solo exhibition, 'Monumental Sculptures', the French contemporary artist Jean-Michel Othoniel has collaborated with a Feng Shui Master in determining the forms and colors of his sculptures: the individualism and the sentiments invested in the forms originate in human life generally. Also on view 'Vertical Color of Sound', a solo exhibition of Ryan McGinlet.
OTHONIEL “Monumental Sculptures”
Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong / May 13 - June 21, 2014
Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, is proud to present the solo exhibition,
“Monumental Sculptures”, of the French contemporary artist, Jean-Michel
Othoniel. He was born in 1964 in Saint-Étienne, France. He now lives and
works in Paris.
Othoniel creates forms that are inherently poetic by rooting his works in
abstractness and contemplation. In this solo exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, Hong
Kong, the artist has collaborated with a Feng Shui Master in determining the
forms and colors of his sculptures. As an outcome of the artist’s psychology,
the individualism and the sentiments invested in the forms originate in human life
generally. While Feng Shui is a Chinese philosophical system of harmonizing
the human existence with the surrounding environment, the idea conforms to
the artistic approach of Othoniel, who constantly seeks to relate his works with
regard to the nature, to the world and to the space they inhabit. The rotation
of the beads is the gesture and movement of these monumental glass and
aluminum sculpture in the gallery room, through which the sculptor brings out
the intrinsic beauty and variability of the knots he invented. Due to the abstract
and minimal quality of these sculptures, we are confronted by a dialogue of
visibility, of whether the space is adorned by the works or actually the works
are celebrated by the space.
“Double Collier Autoporté Or”, imposes its presence and orderliness over the
entrance of the building. As for the forms of the three knots sculptures, “Nœud
rose miroir”, “Nœud rouge miroir” and “Nœud ambre miroir”, that reside in the
main space of the gallery, Othoniel has opted for a kind of emotional geometry.
Jean-Michel Othoniel has always shown a strong passion towards commissioning
for specific sites. In 2000, he responded for the first time to a commission
for a public space and transformed the Paris subway entrance at the Palais-
Royal-Musée du Louvre station, into a “Pavilion of the Nightwalkers”. The Hara
Museum of Contemporary Art has invited him in 2009 to create a new sculpture
in Gunma, “Kokoro”, installed at the entrance of the museum. In 2013, the
Mori Art Museum in Tokyo commissioned him, for its 10th anniversary, “Kin no
Kokoro”, a permanent work in the Mohri Garden. In September 2014, he will
inaugurate a group of three majestic fountain sculptures in the gardens of the
Palace of Versailles, at the Water Theatre grove reinterpreted by the landscape
designer Louis Benech; “The Beautiful Dances”, will thus become the first
permanent work commissioned from a contemporary artist since Louis XVI.
The exhibition “Monumental Sculptures” is part of the festival Le French
May 2014.
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Ryan MCGINLEY
"Vertical Color of Sound"
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Media Preview Invitation: A media preview will be taking place on Tuesday May 13th 2014 from 5pm to 6pm.
Opening cocktail on Tuesday May13th 2014 from 6pm to 9pm.
Galerie Perrotin
17/F, 50 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7pm