Olivier Mosset, 2019

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Olivier Mosset has been living in Tucson, Arizona since 1996; he was born in 1944 in Bern. Since the mid-1970s he has been a representative of so-called Radical Painting, an abstract-geometric conception of painting that made art history in 1977 with the exhibition Radical Painting in Williamstown, New York, which proved to be ­defining in terms of style. One of its ideals is to ­undermine artistic originality through objectivity and seriality. Starting point was the question of what painting actually is, and how it works. To this end, Olivier Mosset created a diverse oeuvre of monochrome as well as abstract-geometric works, suppressing any mystifying attribution of meaning. The exhibition and book exemplify this and offer a varied overview of Olivier Mosset’s work, from the black circular rings to the two-tone stripe paintings, and the stars and monochrome canvases, which in their execution are devoid of any distinct individual characteristics.

Sabine Schaschl
Publisher: snoeck
Language: German / English
270 x 230 mm, hardcover
160 pages with 91 color illustrations
ISBN 978-3-86442-295-9

Members: CHF 43.-