Olivier Boissiere

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Olivier Boissiere (born 1939, date of death unknown) was a French writer and commentator of contemporary art and architecture. His profiles, comments, features and interviews had been published in international magazines such as Domus, Abitare, [http://www.larchitecturedaujourdhui.fr/ L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui] and Vogue Paris. Boissiere was the author of several books about the works of Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Le Corbusier, Ron Arad and Philippe Starck. He was on Jean Nouvel's team for more than ten years and served as an advisor and consultant to different architecture projects such as the winning entry of the team Sou Fujimoto+Manal Rachdi for the "Reinventer Paris" competition.

As an assistant and neophyte of art critic Pierre Restany, Boissière witnessed the emerging of the avant-garde in the Sixties with Yves Klein, Raymond Hains, Cy Twombly, Christo and others, who held their exhibitions in Galerie J in Paris. Later his interests shifted to modern European and American architecture. He was close to the early Frank Gehry and familiar with the Californian art scene in the Seventies, privileged to encounter great artists such as Ed Ruscha, Larry Bell and Donald Judd. A close friend of Lewis Baltz, he kept strong bonds with the French art scene as a familiar of Sophie Calle, Jean Charles Blais, Daniel Buren, Bertrand Lavier, Olivier Mosset and Bernard Frize. A modest art collector himself, Boissiere gathered his collection along with some new discoveries in his Un Cabinet d'Amateur in Sofia, devoted to Bulgarian and foreign contemporary art. Provided by Wikipedia