Olivier Mosset

Mosset, Olivier





Olivier Mosset was born 1944 BirthBern, Switzerland.
Lives and works in HomeTuscon, Arizona USA.

Categories: Painting BMPT group

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For the last four decades, Olivier Mosset has remained committed to questioning painting as a historical object by, somewhat paradoxically, continuing to paint. Through his affiliation with the B.M.P.T., a group of conceptually driven painters formed in Paris in the 1960s, Mosset and his peers—Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni (their initials reflected in their collective acronym)—sought to democratize art through radical procedures of deskilling…
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