Olivier
Mosset

Olivier Mosset co-founded the BMPT group with Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni. In 1966, he initiated a highly radical artistic practice. Calling for the deconstruction of painting, he embodies, in his serial and methodical works, a form of visual nihilism, defining painting simply as "colour applied to canvas".

For eight years, he painted some 200 white canvases in an identical format, one metre by one metre, with a black circle in the centre. This process objectifies the painting, denying it its originality and uniqueness. Aiming to go beyond the use of motif and make painting as basic as possible, he later created a series of monochromes. Its effectiveness is found in the work of unitary colour, which says no more "beyond that which is there".

Mosset's work will be shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection during the “Au-delà de la couleur” (“Beyond Colour”) exhibition at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes in June 2021.