尚·米歇尔·欧托尼耶（Jean-Michel Othoniel）是一位艺术家，他创作的雕塑探索了脆弱，转变和短暂的主题。通过重复使用诸如砖块或珠子之类的模块化元素，他的作品采用了各种策略来暗示失落和绝望——作品完美表面的裂缝，负空间以及他职业生涯早期的过渡材料（例如硫磺）。迄今为止，有关这位艺术家作品的最权威的研究，包括私密的画廊作品以及受世界各地委托创作的不朽的公共作品。

Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular elements as bricks or beads, his work deploys various strategies that hint at loss and despair - cracks in his objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and, early in his career, transient materials such as sulfur. The most authoritative study of the artist's work to date, it includes intimate gallery pieces as well as monumental public commissions around the world.