Perrotin is pleased to return to ART021 Shanghai 2025 with a solo presentation of French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, whose glass sculptures shimmer between fragility and monumentality. Fresh from his major museum exhibition, The Enchantment at Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, and amid his ambitious city-wide project OTHONIEL COSMOS or the Ghosts of Love across Avignon—the artist’s largest project to date, Othoniel brings new and recent works that resonate with the momentum of these landmark presentations.
Composed mainly of glass beads and bricks, sometimes mirrored, these modular forms of knots, necklaces, and walls reflect their surroundings, transforming light and movement into quiet choreographies. For Othoniel, sculpture functions like feng shui—a conduit of harmony linking humans, nature, and architecture. Drawing from both Eastern and Western traditions, Othoniel bridges the baroque exuberance of European ornament with the contemplative spirituality of Asian aesthetics. Over two decades, he has developed a visual language that turns structure into emotion—what he calls an “emotional geometry.”
Kwang Young Chun extends the dialogue between material and meaning with works from his long-running Aggregation series—faceted, dense relief composed of hundreds of hand-tied triangular parcels of hanji (Korean mulberry paper) dismantled from old books and wrapped like the food or medicine packets (bojagi) he remembers from childhood, transforming text into texture and painting into sculpture. Grounded in the artist’s long-standing inquiry into interconnectedness, these works recast recycled pages into meditations on ecological repair and social healing through the slow, repetitive act of wrapping and tying. Collectively, they treat paper as living matter, where memory meets the environment through slow, ritualized labor.
Also on view at the gallery’s booth will be major works by Bernard Frize, Susumu Kamijo, Takashi Murakami, Qi Zhuo, Sigrid Sandström, and Josh Sperling.
