Catalog Arts & Nature - october 2020 to november 2021

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LE THÉORÈME DE NARCISSE NARCISSUS’S THEOREM Conversation between Jean-Michel Othoniel and Christophe Leribault

jean-Michel Othoniel

Le theorEme de Narcisse NARCISSUS’ THEOREM

17.5 × 23 cm 48 pages 30 color illustrations softback bilingual french/english edition october 2021 estimated retail price: 25 €

Graduating from the École nationale supérieure d’arts of Cergy-Pontoise in 1988, Jean-Michel Othoniel first garnered attention in 1992 at the Documenta de Cassel where he exhibited his sulphur sculptures. A year later he introduced glass into his work and it gradually became his favoured material. These days, he exhibits his work in the world’s leading museums, including the Centre Pompidou, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Plateau, the Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.

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rom September 2021, Jean-Michel Othoniel will be taking over the whole of the Petit Palais and its garden. It will be the biggest exhibition devoted to the artist in Paris since the My Way retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2011. The Petit Palais itself and its history will provide the running thread of the exhibition, the works entering into a dialogue with the architecture of the building and its garden. For the occasion, Othoniel has come up with the Narcissus Theorem focusing on the man of the beautiful flower who in his own reflection also reflects the world around him. Narcissism is not always a neurosis and can play a positive role in aesthetic creation. And sublimation is not always the negation of desire but can be a means of engaging with an ideal. Whereupon Narcissus no longer says “I love myself as I am” but rather “I am as I love myself”. Featuring over 70 new works, the “Narcissus Theorem” exhibition weaves the artist’s spell once again and explores the theory of reflections that he has been developing for nearly a decade in conjunction with the Mexican mathematician Aubin Arroyo, imbuing his recurring themes with a fresh and visionary meaning in the world of today. The exhibition welcomes us with a river of a thousand shimmering blue bricks flowing down the main staircase of the Petit Palais, indicating the start of the path that we will be following. Inspired by the sumptuous architectural flourishes of the Petit Palais and the flowers of its garden, the artist has installed some

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twenty new works: mirrored pieces that reflect the frescoes of the peristyle painted by Paul Baudoüin, monumental water lilies placed on the mirrors of the water basins with their blue mosaics, gold necklaces attached to the branches of trees from the Orient, and pearls niched in the peristyle. The Crown of the Night comes from a forest in northern Europe and for a long time this sculpture was hidden beneath the 300-yearold oaks of a cathedral-like forest. And now, like a colored glass spider, it majestically fills the dome of the palace’s northern staircase. Narcissus’s grotto awaits us at the foot of the staircase, where we find the whole universe of reflections so central to Othoniel’s art and astutely orchestrated by Aubin Arroyo, including the two-tone Precious Stonewall and monochrome triptychs. The wild knots created over the course of nearly a decade are like Borromean rings in which we discover our own reflections and which reflect themselves in an endless mise en abyme.


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Bokashi. Manuel du compost urbain à la japonaise

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page 91

Les Jardiniers invisibles. Arnaud Ville

1min
page 90

Manuel de la litière forestière fermentée

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pages 92-94

La Chambre et l’Intime. Claire Ollagnier

2min
page 88

L’architecture carolingienne François Héber-Suffrin and Christian Sapin

2min
page 89

Portraits d’Arles. Jean-Claude Golvin

2min
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Deux mains dans la terre. Vers une transition agroécologique. Jacques Caplat and Laëtitia Rouxel

2min
page 83

Le Désert d’Ata. Claire Malary and Mélanie Trugeon.

1min
page 81

Le Fil d’Ariane. Le Jardin d’Ariane. Nadja

1min
page 78

Le Divin Scénario. Script by Jacky Beneteaud Drawings by Fabrizio Dori

1min
page 80

Idulfania. Brecht Evens

1min
page 77

Brasser sa bière. Charlotte and Alexis Champoiseau and Claire Sejournet. Illustrated by Emmanuelle Teyras

2min
page 75

Planter un arbre. Ernst Zürcher. Illustrated by Caroline Attia

2min
page 76

Tendre vers la sobriété numérique. Frédéric Bordage. Illustrated by Marie Morelle

2min
page 74

Changer l’école de l’intérieur. Philippe Viard Illustrations by Ivan Loncle

1min
page 73

Procrastiner pour mieux créer. Fleur Daugey Illustrations by Marie de Monti

1min
page 70

Animal. Cahier militant. Bella Lack et Vipulan Puvaneswaran

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pages 67-69

Devenir consom’acteur : le gluten. Angèle Ferreux-Maeght. Illustrations by Le Cil Vert

1min
page 71

Montessori à la maison, 12-15 ans. Nathalie Petit. Illustrations by Pauline Amelin

1min
page 72

Animal. Chaque génération a son combat. Voici le nôtre

2min
page 66

L’Incroyable Pouvoir du souffle. Prenez les

1min
page 65

Ensemble pour mieux se nourrir

2min
page 64

Libérer son entreprise. Pierre-Yves Antras Preface by Isaac Getz

1min
page 59

À la recherche du blé vivant Roland Feuillas and Jean-Philippe de Tonnac

2min
page 63

Demain, une Europe agroécologique

1min
page 58

Vers la sobriété heureuse (new edition Pierre Rabhi. Preface by Matthieu Ricard

2min
page 57

Vers un numérique responsable. Repensons notre

1min
page 61

L’Enfant, l’École et le Cheval. Lisa Paret and Alicia Vaïsse

1min
page 62

L’Avenir de Terre-Patrie. Cheminer avec Edgar Morin. Directed by Alfredo Pena-Vega

1min
page 56

La Tristesse de Gaïa. De l’effondrement à

1min
page 51

Pour une forêt primaire en Europe de l’Ouest Francis Hallé

3min
page 50

Ostéopathie équine. Dominique Giniaux

1min
page 47

Le cheval, c’est l’avenir. Jean-Louis Gouraud

1min
page 49

Les Manchots de Mandela. Et autres récits océaniques. David Grémillet

2min
page 45

Les Écrits de jeunesse de Nuno Oliveira

1min
page 46

Nos batailles pour l’environnement, 50 procès

2min
page 48

Parmi les arbres. Essai de vie commune

2min
page 44

Je est un nous. Enquête philosophique sur nos interdépendances avec le vivant. Jean-Philippe Pierron

2min
page 43

La Vallée de l’abeille noire. Yves Élie Postface by Lionel Garnery

1min
page 42

Être un chêne. Sous l’écorce de Quercus

2min
page 41

Autobiographie d’un poulpe. Et autres récits

2min
page 40

Apprendre à voir. Le point de vue du vivant

5min
page 39

Le Radeau des Cimes. Trente années d’exploration des canopées forestières équatoriales. Dany Cleyet-Marrel,

6min
page 35

Paysages. L’héritage de Le Nôtre. Collective work Edited by Michel Audouy and Chiara Santini

6min
pages 36-38

Secrets de roses. Une encyclopédie illustrée

2min
page 33

La Plante compagne. Pratique et imaginaire

1min
page 32

L’Origine du monde. Une histoire naturelle

2min
page 29

Schubert. L’ami Franz. André Tubeuf

1min
page 26

Ce qu’il faut de désir. Sophie Nauleau

1min
page 27

Je l’ai déjà joué demain. Richard Peduzzi

1min
page 28

Federico Mompou. À la recherche d’une musique perdue

1min
page 24

Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Le baiser des Muses Conversation with Bertrand Dermoncourt. Preface by Gidon Kremer

1min
page 23

William Christie, Cultiver l’émotion. Conversation with Emmanuel Resche-Caserta

2min
page 25

Michel Audiard - Albert Simonin. Le cave se

2min
page 22

JH Engström. Introduction by Urs Stahel

5min
page 17

Théo Angelopoulos. Le temps suspendu. Yorgos Archimandritis

1min
page 21

Raymond Depardon. Introduction by Michel Guerrin

4min
page 18

Histoire des libraires et des librairies de l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours. Jean-Yves Mollier. Edited by Olivier Deloignon

2min
page 19

Cette fin du monde nous aura quand même donné de beaux couchers de soleil. Julien Gester, with contribution from Jakuta Alikavazovic

8min
pages 11-14

Helen Levitt. Introduction by Jean-François Chevrier

2min
page 15

Tous témoins. Prison drawings by Najah Albukaï Collective work. Edited by Farouk Mardam-Bey

1min
page 6

Sabine Weiss. Introduction by Virginie Chardin

2min
page 16

Borders. Photography by Jean-Michel André. Text by Wilfried N’Sondé

2min
page 10

Le Théorème de Narcisse, conversation between Jean-Michel Othoniel and Christophe Leribault

2min
page 9

Le Grand Mezzé. Collective work. Edited by Édouard de Laubrie

2min
page 7

Les Iconophages. Une histoire de l’ingestion des

2min
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