Olivier Mosset has always been deeply committed to abstraction and its history, approaching painting in terms of both production and reception, with an awareness of its social and political dimension.
— Bob Nickas
Olivier Mosset, born in 1944 in Bern, Switzerland, is one of the central figures of postwar abstract painting and an essential reference for several generations of European and American painters. He is distinguished by his radical approach to painting, in which the work is no longer a personal expression but an exploration of form, color, and minimalist gesture.
Although he is known for having created, in 1967, together with Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni, the ephemeral constellation B.M.P.T, four artists in revolt against institutional art, his work is not limited to the famous series of circles he painted at the time; it represents an uninterrupted reflection for over fifty years on painting today. Acting as a bridge between American abstraction and European painting, he employs monochromes and geometric abstraction on all scales, with a particular predilection for monumental scale.
His work has been shown worldwide, including at the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai in 2018, MAMCO in Geneva in 2020, and the Tucson Museum of Art in Tucson in 2021.