OLIVIER MOSSET, invitation cards of exhibitions 1972-2010
32 x 26 x 5 cm
ring binder with printed matter: 56 exhibition invites, plastic sleeves.
This collection of printed matter is almost a complete set of exhibition invitations from this period.
OLIVIER MOSSET, Untitled # 3, #4, #5 and #6, 1992
ca 60 x 60 cm (4 sq. feet) / 31 x 30.5 cm (1 sq. foot)
two pieces of acrylic paint on canvas, 4 labels; 6 parts
signed on 3 labels
numbered and dated in print
only sold as unique piece of work
p.o.r.
inv.OM 696-697-pr
In 1992 John M Armleder proposed several gallerists to show together multiples at the Basel Art Fair under the name Associated Publishers. Participating publishers were Daniel Buchholz, Cologne / Ecart, Geneva / Gallery John Gibson, New York / Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam / Daniel Newburg, New York and Caroline Nitsch Editions, New York. Gallery John Gibson showed a 10 meters long rolled up canvas originally rejected by Olivier Mosset and kept in his studio. For the Art Basel Editions 1992 he proposed to revive this painting by adding a pair of scissors to the red roll, including pre-signed labels for each sale. This was meant for buyers to cut out a piece of one square foot or more.
During the Art Basel art fair no visitor bought a piece of the edition and at the end of the art fair Kees van Gelder and John Gibson swapped an edition with each other. After the fair the roll of canvas and samples got lost and until today Olivier Mosset has never seen it again. This makes the set pictured above into an unique piece that originally was meant as a kind of DIY edition until the canvas was finished.
Since the roll of red painted canvas is lost for over a period of thirty years, let alone the signed labels, this work should be considered as more than unique. It is a set of three signed editions cut out from the vintage rol for the very first time on the Basel Art Fair. This is all that is left over and therefore this group of works ought to stay together in order to preserve a lucid idea of Olivier Mosset to give a twist to his originally disapproved very large painting. KvG
Basel Art Fair 1992
OLIVIER MOSSET, Untitled, 1992
70 x 30 cm
screen print on sprayed synthetic base
edition 12, here nr 9/12
€ 6.200,- plus € 32,- courier costs
OLIVIER MOSSET & STEVEN PARRINO, “Studio photo”, n.d. [1990]
20,1 x 25,3 cm
analogue photo print, unframed
numbered, signed by both artists
edition 50
published by Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
In this picture the cars of Olivier Mosset and Steven Parrino are parked in front of their adjacent studios in Brooklyn. This picture was taken in 1990 and Mosset and Parrino called it their “Studio photo” ever since.
SP 610
OLIVIER MOSSET, untitled, 1991
107 x 107 cm (100 x 100)
screen print on colored heavy paper, framed
verso: signed, numbered, dated
edition 25
rare
€ 2.800,- plus courier costs
€ 2.000,- (unframed) plus € 32,- Track & Trace EU registered mail in cardboard tube
Sometimes a print reflects light more than the light it reflects…. This work of Olivier Mosset is one of these works that vibrates brilliantly, due to its colour combinations.
Mèle Chaud ou la Collection en poche, 1992
16,8 x 12,7 cm / 6.5 x 5 inches
unpaginated exhibition catalogue; pocket photo album with 18 color photographs
edition 50, here number 34/50
very good condition, although tear in spine of plastic sleeve
produced by Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
extremely rare
€ 1.200,- plus registered mail
inv.SP 000-pr
Participating artists: Carl Andre, J.C. Lefevre, H. Scharnagl, Daniel Buren, S. Parrino, J.-P. Bertrand, L. L’Hermitte, On Kawara, R. Hains, E. Wurm, Olivier Mosset and H. Yongping.
OLIVIER MOSSET, Buick Riviera, 2014
3 x 12 x 4,7 cm
window chocolate box (11,5 x 17 x 5 cm)
chocolate, cardboard box, celluloid
signed, dated
edition 50
published by Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
€ 385,- plus € 12,- Track & Trace registred mail
inv.OM 322
OLIVIER MOSSET / George Maciunas, n.d. [heap of confetti ca 1969]
35 grams confetti as “Production Art”
handmade by George Maciunas for “Flux Dots By Mosset Total Art Nice”, in plastic box with label
In 2008 Olivier Mosset prepared a solo exhibition in Galerie van Gelder in Amsterdam. Next to several huge monochrome paintings he brought a white envelope. As part of the legacy of George Maciunas the heirs didn’t know what to do with the left-overs of the multiple box Flux Dots By Mosset Total Art Nice. So they gave it to me, he said while handing over the envelope: “I don’t know what to do with it, so I thought I just give it to you. You can do with it what you like.”
Usually George Maciunas only produced a Fluxus box when someone was interested in buying one. So this envelope with confetti originally comes from his stock.
In short this envelope with confetti is neither art nor just a bunch of confetti. These pieces of handmade “Flux dots” (a name Olivier Mosset would never use since he never considered himself to be associated with the Fluxus movement) were once meant to be part of a plastic box series called “Flux Dots By Mosset Total Art Nice”. In the end both artists have touched these particles; for sentimental and also historic reasons this piece could best be named On hold Art.
inv. OMoss302
OLIVIER MOSSET, sans titre, 2012-2013
11,7 x 8,8 cm
virtual sound post card
unlimited edition
published by MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection Kees van Gelder, Amsterdam
May be obtained for free by clicking here Olivier Mosset
At the moment no sound support by Mamco!
Olivier Mosset is known for being part of the BMPT (Buren-Mosset-Parmentier-Toroni) group founded in 1968 and his huge monochromes as shown at the Swiss pavilion of the Venice Biennual. Less known is that he is a fervent Harley Davidson motorbike driver as one may understand when looking/listening at the sound postcard.
List of artists who made sound post cards for MAMCO:
Luc Andrié — Lillian Ball — Cathryn Boch — Katinka Bock — Brice Catherin — Mio Chareteau — Jérémy Chevalier — Nina Childress — Rudy Décelière — Jacques Demierre — Paul Devautour — Tamara de Wehr — Léo Durand — Peter Downsbrough — Heike Fiedler — Luca Forcucci — Gilles Furtwängler — Aloïs Godinat — Alex Hanimann — Thomas Huber — Peter Kogler — Juan José “Pepe” Laici — Anne Le Troter — Beat Lippert — Elisabeth Llach — Marlene McCarty — Olivier Mosset — Ann Noël — ORLAN — Frédéric Post — Marta Riniker-Radich — Sarkis — THE DONKEY’S TAIL — Joëlle Tuerlinckx — Francis Baudevin, Christian Pahud — Filippo Filliger, Dorothée Thébert, Colette — Francesca Gabbiani, Eddie Ruscha
OLIVIER MOSSET, 2009
La chute d’eau (Sur le Moulin, Chexbres)
18,3 x 13,3 cm
photo print marouflée sur vélin Rives, signed, numbered
25 ex.