Olivier Mosset
Olivier Mosset was born in 1944 in Bern, Switzerland, and lives and works in Tuscon, Arizona. Mosset's work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; MAC - Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; Le Consortium, Dijon among others. Olivier Mosset represented Switzerland at the 44th Venice Biennale.
Very early I had a soft spot for Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, a French book in a German speaking town. Later I was impressed by the passage from existence to class struggle. Also, some people are able to refuse the Nobel (although as Erik Satie said, speaking of the Légion d’Honneur, the trick is not to deserve it). I might have been dreaming about a White Christmas or a Winter Palace, but these were dreams.
