About The Work
Since the 1960s, Olivier Mosset has been an unassuming but pivotal figure in the discussion on how an artwork should function. His work for Three Star Books is a highly contemporary "do-it-yourself" book in the spirit of work being produced today by both individual artists and collaborative projects. In this book, the spectator can complete the work or not. The small ensuing sculptures, a coda to the long line of monumental pieces Mosset produced on the same theme, are whimsically small and light, in comparison to their precedents. While the Toblerone sculptures are references to the Swiss national repast, and to the military bunkers that dot the Swiss landscape, their very repetition reveals their most interesting facet: context.
Courtesy of Three Star Books
About Olivier Mosset
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Sculpture
Hard cover book with paper imitating canvas and black foil title
Sixteen pages printed on one side with a die-cut model on each page
11.81 x 15.75 in
30.0 x 40.0 cm
Signed and numbered by the artist.
About The Work
Since the 1960s, Olivier Mosset has been an unassuming but pivotal figure in the discussion on how an artwork should function. His work for Three Star Books is a highly contemporary "do-it-yourself" book in the spirit of work being produced today by both individual artists and collaborative projects. In this book, the spectator can complete the work or not. The small ensuing sculptures, a coda to the long line of monumental pieces Mosset produced on the same theme, are whimsically small and light, in comparison to their precedents. While the Toblerone sculptures are references to the Swiss national repast, and to the military bunkers that dot the Swiss landscape, their very repetition reveals their most interesting facet: context.
Courtesy of Three Star Books
About Olivier Mosset
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Manifesta Curator Kasper König on the Hidden Provocations Within His Show in Putin's Russia
- Interviews & Features: 6 Artworks to Invest in This May
- Art 101: The Secret Alter Egos of the Art World
- Art 101: From AbEx to ZKM: Our Guide to the Acronyms of the Art World
- News & Events: New Art From L.A.'s Galleries, Openings From Gstaad to the Lower East Side, & More
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