Copyright: Olivier Mosset
Courtesy: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Männedorf-Zurich
Photo: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Männedorf-Zurich
Provenance: Donated by Galerie Bruno Bischofberger,
Männedorf-Zurich
The Swiss painter Olivier Mosset (b. 1944 in Bern)
lives and works in Tuscon, Arizona.
Olivier Mosset’s exploration of the monochrome
image and oversized formats revolves around the question of the essence of painting. In 1966,
together with Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier
and Niele Toroni, he co-founded the artists’ group
BMPT, an acronym of their four surnames.
Mosset first took up his strategy of subverting the expectations of art and, with these, the
imperatives of originality and constantly new production in his Untitled series of paintings commenced in 1966. Over a period of six years, he
repeated Untitled around 200 times in exactly the
same form, technique and dimensions. Untitled
of 1971, with its black circular ring set in the centre
of the white canvas, is no different to the other
works in the series: each is an original handmade
by the artist, but none is the only one of its kind.
