Jean-Michel Othoniel - Cosmos (English Edition)

Published to coincide with the exhibition Cosmos or the Ghosts of Love, presented in Avignon (28 June 2025 - 4 January 2026).

Created for the Avignon exhibition, Othoniel Cosmos or the Ghosts of Love, this is a sketchbook.

Jean-Michel Othoniel has filled it with watercolors that reveal the movement of hand and mind, the moment when brush, paint, and water stitch idea to gesture. Something is born, takes form, is elaborated; these drawings are apparitions.

Taking as its starting point the works by the artist that will be exhibited in Avignon in the summer of 2025, the book mingles the steps of visitors with those of Petrarch and Laure, summoning up the verses of the Canzoniere that the Italian poet dedicated to his lost love, and making them the common thread of the visit.

Accompanied by a map, the small-format book turns the guidebook genre into a work of poetry, inviting readers and visitors to dream and marvel.