Olivier Mosset: The Cold Joy of Painting Degree Zero

After seeing the paintings of Olivier Mosset at the 1990 Venice Biennale Jean Baudrillard wrote that we him owe a debt of gratitude (2001:139). Mosset's career as an artist has been a thoughtful interrogation of an art world that frustrates him. He understood early on that the avant-garde was d...

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Published in:International journal of Baudrillard studies 2010-01, Vol.7 (2)
Main Author: Coulter, Gerry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art Works
Artists
Baudrillard, Jean
Careers
Death
Happiness
Italy
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Summary:After seeing the paintings of Olivier Mosset at the 1990 Venice Biennale Jean Baudrillard wrote that we him owe a debt of gratitude (2001:139). Mosset's career as an artist has been a thoughtful interrogation of an art world that frustrates him. He understood early on that the avant-garde was dead and that art must challenge both art and the art world's understanding of it. From his experiences we learn a good deal about what it has been like to be a painter after the end of the avant-garde in an art world that does not recognize the death of the avant-garde. The problem, which Mosset still struggles with today (at 66), is that the art world absorbs everything that ventures close to it. Mosset's life as an artist has been a record of a thoughtful theoretician and strategist who has negotiated the paradoxical terrain which includes his need to paint and an art world which attempts to force artists into complicity. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1705-6411
1705-6411