For the inaugural edition of Paris Internationale Milano, Galerie Oskar Weiss presents five large-format – historic and recent – monochrome paintings by Olivier Mosset (1944, CH), a key figure in postwar abstract painting. The shaped canvases are presented alongside a group of dolls by Alex Bag (1969, USA), who has been a leading voice in video performance art since the 1990s.

On the occasion of Salone del Mobile, we are additionally pleased to present Bench, 2026, a collaboration between Olivier Mosset and NM3, bringing together two distinct yet resonant practices at the intersection of art, design, and architecture in form of a new interpretation of Mosset’s iconic museum-bench sculptures.

Dialoging works by Alex Bag with those of Olivier Mosset is a thrilling unexpectance revealing shared realities clear and present all along. Within their strong visual and physical presences Bag and Mosset are both concerned with that which already exists: materials, histories and our often ridiculous contemporary world. Their worked-over readymades reach for the social through the popular, skewering ideas of typology. Sameness and difference compete. Mosset’s 1970s deep pink rectangle, once exhibited as a sound panel at a cinema, against more recent green, blue or yellow primary shapes relating to the alphabet. Bag’s “basic republican” with a figure “just hit by a car”. All contra or with one another. What is usage value in art, what content might it impossibly contain and how does that extend across time? Scale and symbols and color unfurl into just what they are. Mosset’s paintings, calling attention to and inhabiting their objectness, must also be viewed as sculpture and these sculptures of Alex Bag act as images created and collaged from and within three dimensions. Aren’t her Caucasian dolls a varied series of monochromes as much as his canvases with their sprayed industrial paint? Within these the individuation of type is strong, each doll and each canvas act as artistic platforms for serious levity. They get along well.

– Mitchell Anderson