Born in 1928 in Trenton (New Jersey), Albert Moser has been renowned for his "DIY" photographic panoramas over the past decade which were exhibited at the Maison Rouge and in the "Photo brut" section of the 2019 Rencontres internationales de la photography d'Arles.

Above all, Moser has always been a prolific designer. These works on paper - of which this is the first monographic exhibition - bear witness to the same obsession with space as his photographic montages.

He lived until the age of 60 with his parents (Russian Jewish immigrants). After having been sent with the American occupation army to Japan in his youth, Albert became a jack of all trades: an aircraft cleaner at a military base, a sweet seller ... It was his return from war where he became an artist, expressing himself sometimes through photography, other times through drawing.

Obsession with balance

All of Albert Moser’s works shed light – each piece in its own way – on his constant concern for balance in his compositions and his need for objects to be organized according to a precise axis and plan.

The artist’s work is at the crossroads of geometric abstraction and Op Art: Moser willingly uses templates that he makes himself to tirelessly repeat certain shapes in his graphic universe, as well as using of readily strident colors in his creations.

For the occasion of the exhibition, a 200-page catalogue, bilingual in English and French, will be published by the gallery, with texts by Bruce Burris (American visual artist) and Phillip March Jones (exhibition curator and founder of Institute 193 in New York).

Galerie Christian Berst Art Brut

Galerie Christian Berst, which has been internationally recognized as a benchmark in its field, has put its passion into creators found off the beaten track since 2005, whether the artists are “classics” already consecrated by museums and collections, or promising contemporary discoveries ready to be recognized by the art world.

The gallery can also be distinguished by its exhibitions, its participation in international fairs and by its publications (more than 60 bilingual catalogues to date), alongside the conferences, screenings and other cultural events the gallery holds, which attract an ever wider audience into the mysteries of art brut.

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