Olivier Mosset2018

When the young painter Olivier Mosset bought his first motorcycle in Paris in the late 1960s - a Harley Davidson from the US Army - he founded a subculture that was still completely unknown in Europe: the motorcycle club. Mosset's studio on the Rue de Lappe was both the place of origin of radical painting - such as conceptually reduced black circles on a white background - as well as the meeting place and workshop of the first motorcycle club of Marxist character. One sympathized with the student revolt of May '68. The book WHEELS notes the importance of motorcycles and cars in the life and work of Olivier Mosset; as a way of life, a means of transportation and, finally, from the mid-1990s also as a sculptural readymade. The book follows the artistic career of Mosset through the interplay...