Othoniel As Narcissus at the Petit Palais

Christophe Leribault, the last director of the Petit Palais before becoming head of the musée d'Orsay, is curating this 70-work show in the building built in 1900—a first. Some of the pieces, made specifically for the exhibition, illustrate the last 10 years of Jean-Michel Othoniel’s creative output. Punctuated by various "passages" from the outside to the inside of the built environment, it evokes the ancient myth of Narcissus, reinterpreted here as "Theorem". Othoniel composes self-portraits in materials with which he is obsessed:…