OLIVIER MOSSET AT MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN
February 25th, 2020
Olivier Mosset, CBGB, 1985, image courtesy the artist and gallery Catherine Issert, photo François Fernandez
The Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO) in Geneva will be exhibiting a comprehensive retrospective of works by Olivier Mosset. Occupying virtually all the museum, MAMCO’s retrospective charts his career over almost 60 years. From his early experiments during the 1960s to his monumental recent works, the exhibition reviews Mosset’s reflections on artistic appropriation, monochrome painting, and shaped canvases. Several rooms are devoted to movements and artists with whom Mosset was or remains closely associated, allowing us to consider his work in a variety of contexts. In addition to a section devoted to the activities led with Buren, Parmentier, and Toroni, the exhibition features works by Nouveaux Réalistes (notably Jean Tinguely and Daniel Spoerri, for whom Mosset worked as an assistant), experimental film-makers’ collective Zanzibar (with whom Mosset directed, acted in and produced several films), American “Radical painting” of the 1970s and 1980s (including Marcia Hafif and Joseph Marioni) and artists such as Sherrie Levine, Steven Parrino, Cady Noland, John Armleder, and Sylvie Fleury, with whom he has maintained a regular dialogue.
Organized by Paul Bernard and Lionel Bovier, the exhibition will be on view February 25 - June 21, 2020.
With the support of Fondation du Jubilé de la Mobilière Suisse Société Coopérative, Fondation de bienfaisance du groupe Pictet, la Fondation Bonhôte pour l’art contemporain and Brownstone Foundation.
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