Olivier Mosset

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Olivier Mosset, 2003

Olivier Mosset (born November 5, 1944 in Bern ) is a Swiss painter of monochrome and geometric pictures.

life and work

Mosset grew up in Neuchâtel as the son of a chemical engineer. In 1965 he moved to Paris, where he got to know the artists Daniel Buren , Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni and appreciate the minimalist expression of their art. With them he founded the artist group BMPT (derived from the first letters of the surnames of the artists involved) in order to break the dominance of the Nouvelle École de Paris with exhibitions and actions . In 1967 he made the acquaintance of Andy Warhol in New York and discovered the work of Robert Ryman for himself . He joined the group «Vive la Révolution» in 1968 and had his first solo exhibition at the Rive Droite gallery in Paris. There was also a stylistic similarity to Buren's stripe pictures.

From 1977 he worked in New York, where he took part in the Radical Painting exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown . In 1985 the Museum of Modern Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds and the following year the Aargauer Kunsthaus showed the artist's geometric pictures for the first time. In 1990 he took part in the Biennale di Venezia for Switzerland, where the strong influence of his painting on the artists of French- speaking Switzerland - especially on John Armleder - became visible. In 1991 he took part in the exhibition Extra Muros - Swiss Contemporary Art , which took place on the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation. From 1995 to 1996 he was a lecturer at the Ecole supérieure d'art visuel à Genève (ESAV).

In 1996 Mosset married the American Elizabeth Cherry and moved with her from New York to Tucson , Arizona , where they now live and work. His wife ran a gallery in Tucson, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art , from 1996 to 2001 . Today she works for the Museum of Contemporary Art there.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Anthony Huberman (Introduction): John Armleder & Olivier Mosset . A Conversation Between the Artists, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2009, ISBN 978-0-97775285-0
  • Michel Gauthier, Lionel Bovier: Olivier Mosset: travaux, 1966-2003 , 5 continents, 2003, ISBN 978-8-87439056-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hellmut Seemann (Ed.): Europa in Weimar: Visionen einer Kontinents , Jahrbuch Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Wallstein Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-83530281-5 , pp. 426f
  2. Cherry on top . Elizabeth Cherry takes over the Museum of Contemporary Art. In: Tucson weekly, July 5, 2001