Jean-Michel Othoniel’s enchanting aesthetics revolves around the notion of emotional geometry. Through the repetition of modular elements such as bricks or his signature beads, he creates exquisite jewelry-like sculptures whose relationship to the human scale ranges from intimacy to monumentality.
His predilection for materials with reversible and often reflective properties—particularly blown glass, which has been the hallmark of his practice since the early 1990s—relates to the deeply equivocal nature of his art. Monumental yet delicate, baroque yet minimal, poetic yet political, his contemplative forms, like oxymorons, have the power to reconcile opposites.
Jean-Philippe Delhomme is a French artist, illustrator and writer. He has been painting for many years, but kept this side of his work private until his first exhibition in New York in 2015.
Delhomme’s still lifes or landscapes are not just painted, but authored; the thread between his different forms of expression: drawing, writing and painting. Jean-Philippe Delhomme also portrays immense expression through portraiture, conveying an authorly perspective which serves as the common thread throughout his practice.
