These mysterious meteorite-like obsidian sculptures are made of volcanic black glass stones brought back from Armenia. Othoniel arrived at the title for his obsidian series, Invisibility Faces, after reading [Georges] Didi-Huberman’s book The Cube and the Face: Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, (2015). His obsidians were already made, but in Didi-Huberman’s descriptions of Giacometti’s uncanny, crystal-like form Othoniel recognized the character of a semiliving thing. Like Cube [by Giacometti], each of Othoniel’s obsidians is a thing and an image, a body and a stone, an abstraction and a man: an imponderable concatenation of heterogeneous meaning.
This series of necklaces are derived from his sculptural "busts"; natural stones displayed upon wood plinths. These obsidian busts, despite their titles, invite viewers to look at themselves in their shiny surfaces in a sort of mirroring or self-reckoning with our own human condition.
Each necklace is unique, shaped by the natural facets created by its formation and history.
Courtesy of Perrotin
Obsidian, wood beads, leather cord
Pendant is 7.6 cm x 6.5 cm. Overall length is 39.3 cm.
Works are consigned to Perrotin from the artist's studio. No certificate.
These mysterious meteorite-like obsidian sculptures are made of volcanic black glass stones brought back from Armenia. Othoniel arrived at the title for his obsidian series, Invisibility Faces, after reading [Georges] Didi-Huberman’s book The Cube and the Face: Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, (2015). His obsidians were already made, but in Didi-Huberman’s descriptions of Giacometti’s uncanny, crystal-like form Othoniel recognized the character of a semiliving thing. Like Cube [by Giacometti], each of Othoniel’s obsidians is a thing and an image, a body and a stone, an abstraction and a man: an imponderable concatenation of heterogeneous meaning.
This series of necklaces are derived from his sculptural "busts"; natural stones displayed upon wood plinths. These obsidian busts, despite their titles, invite viewers to look at themselves in their shiny surfaces in a sort of mirroring or self-reckoning with our own human condition.
Each necklace is unique, shaped by the natural facets created by its formation and history.
Courtesy of Perrotin
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