Olivier Mosset

It's hard to say what exactly separates Mosset and his brand of reductive minimalistic abstraction from other practitioners of same, except, perhaps, his own Gallic verve. In 1960s Paris, he was associated with like-minded artists such as Daniel Buren and Niele Toroni; he then came to New York just in time for the Neo-Geo boom of the late ’80s, when he showed alongside younger artists. Here he presents 40 identically sized canvases, all similarly coated with a material usually used to make truck liners: a painterly spin, you might say, on back in black.