CREMONA.- San Carlo Cremona is now presenting Olivier Mosset, “San Carlo PG”, second show of the year 2023 to be held in the 17th-century deconsecrated church of San Carlo in Via Bissolati 33, Cremona. Olivier Mosset’s solo show will be on view from May the 27th until September the 15th 2023. For the 2022-2023 biennium San Carlo Cremona has embarked on a collaboration with Servane Mary, an artist based in New York, who invited artists to exhibit in the church of San Carlo. Each exhibition is a site-specific presentation of an artist’s work.

A monumental yellow painting titled “San Carlo PG” is presented, filling the floor of the 17th- century deconsecrated church of San Carlo. The site specific work measuring over five by twenty meters stretches to the nave’s edges as if wishing to expand beyond them. The installation creates a spatial unity in which the emphasis is purely on color and challenges the traditional vertical posture of “art”.

Olivier Mosset is one of the central figure of Post-War Abstract Painting, and an essential reference for several generations of European and American painters. In pursuit of formal rigor and the physical roots of painting, Olivier Mosset’s art is direct and evident, suppressing figuration, subjectivity, symbol and metaphor in a practice that contains and rejects the dialectical history of painting. With the same analytical rigor of his early works, Mosset’s most recent practice exhales the fields of monochromatic and geometric abstraction.

Olivier Mosset was born in 1944 in Bern, Switzerland. He now lives and works between New York and Tucson, Arizona. His work has been exhibited in numeral museums and galleries around the world including the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson (2021); MAMCO, Geneva (2020), Gagosian Gallery, Geneva (2020); Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, Italy (2019); A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2019); Martos Gallery, New York (2013); Kunsthalle, Zürich (2012); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006); Galaxie 500, a collaboration with Servane Mary and Jacob Kassay, Swiss Institute, New York (2013); Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (2010); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008); and the 44th Biennale di Venezia, Swiss Pavillion, Venezia, Italy (1990) amongst others.

Olivier Mosset’s works are part of the following public collections: Centre Pompidou, Paris, Migros Museum, Zürich; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Musée des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ontario.

OLIVIER MOSSET - San Carlo PG
27 May - 15 September
2023 Church of San Carlo
Cremona Open by appointment