An intimate herbarium of flowers in the collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
During his 2012 residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel (born 1964) delved into the archives of the magnificent garden that Isabella Stewart Gardner, the first American woman to graduate with a degree in horticulture, cultivated around her residence. Othoniel examined the museum (where nothing has been moved since its owners died) and photographed the flowers in the tapestries, ironwork, architecture, furnishings and paintings, in such masterpieces as van Dyck's "Portrait of a Woman" with its innocuous rose, Piermatteo d'Amelia's "Annunciation" with its majestic lily and Bartolomé Bermejo's "Saint Engracia" with its enigmatic palm. This giftworthy volume presents his art-historical ABC of these flowers, from Acanthus to Zea Mays."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Diplômé de l'école des arts supérieurs de Cergy-Pontoise en 1988, Jean-Michel Othoniel se fait tout d'abord remarquer en 1993 en exporsant des sculptures en soufre. C'est alors que le verre s'introduit dans son travail pour progressivement devenir son matérieau de prédilection. Aujourd'hui il expose dans les plus grands musées.
À l'occasion de son exposition personnelle à l'Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston USA - du 10 mars au 7 septembre 2015 -, Jean- Michel Othoniel édite une nouvelle version de son livre «L'Herbier merveilleux», en collaboration avec le musée et les éditions Actes Sud. Cet ouvrage se présente comme un carnet abécédaire que l'artiste a nourri, au fil des salles du musée, de photographies de détails de peintures et de fleurs, de dessins et de textes sur le langage secret des fleurs.
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