Opening on Saturday, January 27th, from 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Les Filles du Calvaire gallery will host an exhibition of artist Olivier Mosset in its new space at 21 Rue Chapon from January 30 to February 24, 2024. The artist, who has not had an exhibition in Paris for several years, has chosen this occasion to present a collection of recent monumental pieces that play a central role in the exhibition, along with some historical pieces.
Olivier Mosset is a key figure in post-war abstract painting and a reference for several generations of European and American painters. While known for co-founding the ephemeral B.M.P.T constellation in 1967 with Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni—four artists in revolt against institutional art—his work goes beyond the famous series of circles he painted at that time. His oeuvre is an uninterrupted reflection for over 50 years on painting today. Acting as a bridge between American abstraction and European painting, he employs monochromes and geometric abstraction at all scales, with a preference for gigantism.
"The monochrome is both the easiest and the most difficult thing," he says.
"The paradox of the painting is that it is indeed the system that gives it its place. The various events that displace it (exhibitions, sales, texts) allow it to acquire a position that will precisely question the system itself." A Mosset elsewhere is never the same Mosset.
In parallel with his solo exhibition on Rue Chapon, the Les Filles du Calvaire gallery hosts a collective exhibition in its historic space based on a proposal by Olivier Mosset and curated by Sarina Basta. This exhibition will focus on the companionship of Piet Mondrian and his networks of artistic friendships. Mondrian's history, marked by various exiles, has created numerous complicit ties and aesthetic resonances worldwide, persisting decades after the artist's passing. This echoes in this exhibition, where the companionship of Olivier Mosset is equally explored.
