Olivier Mosset — Sans titre, 1967, Paris Museum

5 October 2017 · Paris

A single black ring, centred on white canvas, demands nothing and gives nothing away. Olivier Mosset painted this in 1967 — the same motif, repeated across a series of identical canvases, stripping painting down to a mark and a field. The gesture is radical precisely because it refuses to be more than it is: a circle on white, hung on a wall, asking you to decide what that costs.