Othoniel weaves a web of unreality, enchantment, illusion and liberation of the imagination. Rivers of blue bricks, Lotus, Necklaces, Crown of the Night, Wild Knots, and Precious Stonewall are hidden in the architecture, placed on the water mirrors of the pools, hanging from trees; new works dialogue with the architecture of the Petit Palais and the golds go its garden.
This exhibition is a message of opening, freely given to the public. Placed under the sign of re-enchantment and the theory of reflections that the artist has been developing for going on ten years in a dialogue with the Mexican mathematician Aubin Arroyo, this exhibition is an occasion to dream and, as long as it lasts, to resist the disillusionment of the world.
Curation: Christophe Leribault, director of the Petit Palais; Juliette Singer, chief curator of heritage, responsible for contemporary art projects at the Petit Palais
Exhibition organized with the support of Perrotin and sponsored by Christian Dior Parfums as part of its Cultural Gardens initiative. On this occasion, Actes Sud is producing a book to be co-published by Perrotin at the time of the exhibition.