Olivier Mosset

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Olivier Mosset
Olivier Mosset, 2003
Born	1944 Bern, Switzerland
Field	Painting

Olivier Mosset (born 1944 in Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss visual artist. He lives and works in Tucson, Arizona.

Life and work

Mosset has spent considerable time in New York and Paris. In Paris in the 1960s he was a member of the BMPT (art group), along with Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni.^[1] The group questioned notions of authorship and originality, implying that they often did each other's works, and that the art object was more important than its authorship.

Later, in New York in the late 1970s, Mosset undertook a long series of monochrome paintings, during the heyday of Neo-expressionism. He became a founding member of the New York Radical Painting group, radical referring both to an implied radical social stance, as well as a returning to the radical “root” of painting. This re-assertion of social relevance for abstraction, and even the monochrome, hadn’t been emphasized to such a degree since Malevich and Rodchenko.

In the 1980s neo-geo artists, such as Peter Halley who asserted a socially relevant, critical role for geometric abstraction, cited Mosset as an influence.

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References

↑ Williams, Nicola (2005). France. Lonely Planet. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-74059-923-8.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 95851534 LCCN: nr91017532 ISNI: 0000 0000 7833 2612 GND: 119013576 BNF: cb12403315q

Persondata
Name	Mosset, Olivier
Alternative names
Short description	Swiss artist
Date of birth	1944
Place of birth	Bern, Switzerland
Date of death
Place of death

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