Olivier Mosset has always been seriously engaged with abstraction and its history, approaching painting in terms of production and reception, and with an awareness of its social and political dimension.
— Bob Nickas, art critic
Olivier Mosset is one of the central figures in post-war abstract painting, and a pivotal reference for generations of European and American painters. Associated with Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni, he was a member of the ephemeral B.M.P.T. "group." His extensive series of circle paintings, executed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is among the most widely discussed works of that era.
In the heady climate of Paris pre-May ’68, the four painters organised “manifestations” rather than exhibitions and adopted a stance in opposition to the European tradition of “cultivated painting,” whether figurative or abstract.