Obsidiana de Jean-Michel Othoniel

This artistic production was presented at the Goetheanum near Basel in 2015. A place that is more than a simple backdrop and interacts with the works, the large angular and organic totems of obsidian and wood, themselves reminiscent of the shapes of the building that encases them. Concrete, wood, glass: the materials are mixed with  harmony  in  a  nearly  carnal  way,  a  sensual  awakening.

This book, abundantly illustrated, prefaced by Johannes Nilo of the Goetheanum documentation centre and accompanied by a text by Lawrence rinder, Director of the Berkeley Art Museum and  pacific  Film  Archive  (BAM/pFA),  is  a  real  ode  to  matter.  Conceived as an echo of the forms of both the invisibility Faces and the Goetheanum, the book in turn becomes an element of reflection on matter and its mysteries.