The BMPT group was comprised of Mosset, Toroni, Parmentier and Buren – as a collective, they argued that the finished art project itself was more important than its original authorship, and often implied that they had created each other’s works;
« I was doing the circle paintings and I thought that I was going to do them for the rest of my life. And maybe the world was going to change or something like that. Of course the world hasn’t changed [...]and I went and I did something else. »
Olivier Mosset
asides from this ambiguity, Mosset received acclaim for the hundreds of Neo-expressionist monochrome paintings such as Caroline, as well as his work as a founding member of the New York Radical Painting group. Mosset also received recognition for his
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The BMPT group was comprised of Mosset, Toroni, Parmentier and Buren – as a collective, they argued that the finished art project itself was more important than its original authorship, and often implied that they had created each other’s works;
« I was doing the circle paintings and I thought that I was going to do them for the rest of my life. And maybe the world was going to change or something like that. Of course the world hasn’t changed [...]and I went and I did something else. »
Olivier Mosset
asides from this ambiguity, Mosset received acclaim for the hundreds of Neo-expressionist monochrome paintings such as Caroline, as well as his work as a founding member of the New York Radical Painting group. Mosset also received recognition for his ice sculptures created later in his career – known as Toblerones, these sculptures referenced the Swiss anti-road blocks created and used during the second World War.
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