"Jean-Michel Othoniel: Treasure Gardens" Installation view ©Seoul Museum of ArtSeoul Museum of Art (SeMA) will be featuring works by French visual artist Jean-Michel Othoniel in June. The exhibition, “Jean-Michel Othoniel: Treasure Gardens” will be on view from June 6 to August 7 at SeMA Seosomun Main Branch.
Othoniel is known for his large-scale jewelry-like glass sculptures. Having become an artist during the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s, Othoniel touches on themes such as ephemerality, fragility, and despair with materials that are transformable, such as sulfur and wax, with a more recent emphasis on glass.
His artworks are collected by institutions including the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Pompidou Center and the Louvre in Paris.
