Olivier Mosset — Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1969

Olivier Mosset — Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1969
Original exhibition invitation

Artist: Olivier Mosset
Venue: Galerie Rive Droite
Address: 3 rue de Duras, Paris 8e
Dates: 5–25 December 1969
Vernissage: 5 December, 18h30
Format: Printed invitation card
Dimensions: approx. 10.5 × 13.5 cm
Materials: Offset print on red card stock
Condition: Good to very good. Light surface wear and handling marks consistent with age.

An original invitation issued for Mosset's December 1969 exhibition at Galerie Rive Droite — one of his earliest solo presentations in Paris, and a key institutional moment in the post-BMPT period. The gallery is documented in Mosset's bibliography as the site of his first Paris exhibitions.

The card is almost without image. A red field. Black type. Venue, address, dates, opening time. Information replaces illustration. The object does not describe the exhibition so much as state its administrative fact — a position entirely consistent with Mosset's practice at the end of the 1960s, when painting was being reduced to repetition, neutrality, and the refusal of expressive difference. Between 1966 and 1974, he produced his serial circle paintings, a body of work inseparable from the debates around BMPT and the broader dismantling of authorship and pictorial identity.

This invitation belongs to that moment. The severe typography and unmodulated red ground read less as design than as declaration. No image, no seduction, no explanation. A card that behaves with the same restraint as the work it announces.

Scarce early Mosset ephemera from a documented exhibition. Comparable early Galerie Rive Droite material from this period is seldom encountered.