Two or three things I know about her … – Writings and interviews, 1966-2003 Olivier Mosset

Description

This book gathers in an almost exhaustive way the writings of Olivier Mosset and the interviews realized with the artist between 1966 and today. He takes over, completes and updates Writings and interviews 1967-1987 (published in 1987 by Yves Aupetitallot and Alain Coulange for the Museum of Painting and Sculpture of Grenoble and the House of Culture and Communication of Saint-Etienne) – a three-way conversation involving John Armleder, Helmut Federle and Olivier Mosset – now unavailable.

Born in 1944 in Berne, Olivier Mosset currently lives and works in Tucson, Arizona. One of the four young artists of the BMTP group (with Daniel Buren, Niele Toroni and Michel Parmentier) who revolted in 1967-68 against the artistic institution, his work goes well beyond this period. Installed in the United States since 1977, Mosset, the only European artist to have immediately located in the posterity of the great American abstract painting, has been able to build a work to the extent of both American formats and critical Western reflection. Geometric, monochrome and post-abstraction abstraction: the work of Mosset, who calls himself a painter before being an artist, is based on a principle of neutrality, radicality and erasure that constantly questions the limits of painting .