"A painting doesn't have to say that it's art. There is a kind of silence to it, which is interesting to me."
The Swiss artist Olivier Mosset is one of the central figures of post-war abstract painting and an essential reference for several generations of European and American painters. His work developed through a series of events organized, between 1966 and 1967, in association with Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni, under the name of BMPT. Proposing to limit themselves to the repetition of an arbitrary motif (for Mosset, a black circle 9 cm in diameter), the artists reduced pictorial practice to its ‘zero point’ of meaning and personal investment. From the 1980s, with the same analytical rigor that characterized his early work, Mosset's painting will then explore the fields of monochrome or geometric abstraction.