Olivier Mosset
Olivier Mosset ( born November 5, 1944 in Bern ) is a Swiss painter of monochrome and geometric images.
Life and work
Mosset grew up in Neuchâtel, the son of a chemical engineer. In 1965 he moved to Paris, where she learned the artist Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni know and appreciate the minimalist expression of their art. With them he founded the artist group BMPT (derived from the first letter of the last name of the participating artists ) to break the dominance of the Nouvelle École de Paris exhibitions and promotions. In 1967 he made the acquaintance in New York of Andy Warhol and discovered for himself the work of Robert Ryman. He joined the group in 1968, " Vive la Révolution " at and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Rive Droite in Paris. It still showed a stylistic proximity to Buren's stripes pictures.
From 1977 he worked in New York, where he took part, among others, the exhibition Radical Painting at Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown. 1985 showed the Museum of Modern Art in La Chaux -de-Fonds and the following year the Aargau Kunsthaus first time the geometrical images of the artist. In 1990, he took for Switzerland participated in the Venice Biennale, where the strong influence of his painting to the artist of Romandie - in particular John Armleder - was visible. In 1991 he took part in the exhibition Extra Muros - Swiss contemporary art, held for the 700th anniversary of Confederation. 1995 to 1996 he was a lecturer at the Ecole supérieure d'art visual à Genève ( ESAV ).
1996 married Elizabeth Mosset the American Cherry and moved with her from New York to Tucson, Arizona, where they live and work today. His wife operational from 1996 to 2001 a gallery in Tucson, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art She is now working for the local Museum of Contemporary Art.