Sketch I by Olivier Mosset
2006
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- Material
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Acrylic on cotton duck
7 panels - Size
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900 x 1400 cm overall
- Description
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For Sketch I, Mosset painted four yellow and three brown panels, each nine metres high – the biggest paintings he has ever done. How did he choose the colour? "This is a nice way to ask something. The colour might have chosen me…," Mosset has said, somewhat enigmatically. The possibilities of painting have been at the heart of his work. As he puts it: "I have problems with painting and I have problems painting them, and it's the fact that I am not happy that makes me go on…."
- Location
- Zurich, Adliswil
© 2006 Olivier Mosset
Image copyright: Stefan Altenburger
How did he choose the colour? This is a nice way to ask something. The colour might have chosen me…
For this commission, though, Mosset was mindful before he started about who it was for: "The situation here is a bit special because it's a public situation, which means that some people who are not interested in seeing artwork, have to look at it, or pass by it; so you have a responsibility that you don't have in a museum."
