Roza-Blue, 1989
Bram Bogart (1921-2012) was a Dutch-born, Belgian painter renowned for his exploration of paint as a sculptural material. Initially trained as a house painter, his artistic journey led from figuration and cubism to gestural abstraction and heavily impastoed works. By blending mortar, pigment, and varnish, Bogart created sculptural paintings with a distinct materiality, blurring the lines between painting and relief sculpture. A pivotal figure in post-war European abstraction, he represented Belgium at the 1971 Venice Biennale and exhibited internationally in institutions such as the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, and Tate, London. Bogart's works are celebrated for their interplay of texture, color, and form, embodying his lifelong interrogation of painting's physical possibilities.