BMPT was a Paris-based late Modern art group formed in the mid-1960s by painters Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier [fr], and Niele Toroni, which, together with the Supports/Surfaces movement, was one of the main representatives of Minimalism in France in the 1960s.
[1] In 1966–67, BMPT presented five exhibitions, called manifestations, which questioned authorial prerogative and the institutionalizing role of the Paris Salons.
In one, the painters presented their iconic artworks as decor for a performance that never occurs, leaving the audience to look at it intently for a long period as they wait for the show.
In another manifestation, the artists painted their works in a public space, before removing them, replacing the finished canvases with a banner that read, in French, "Buren, Mosset, Parmentier, Toroni Do Not Exhibit.
"[2] Seeking to create art that was simple and self-evident, they suppressed subjectivity and expressiveness in favor of practical systems, such as the utilization of neutral, repetitive patterns and an apparent eschewal of aesthetic historical grounding: as in Daniel Buren's painting with woven black and white stripes or Niele Toroni's metric square brush strokes of oil on canvas.