Opening in November, White Cube will present the first solo exhibition in Asia of paintings by Bram Bogart (1921–2012).

In the expressive paintings of Dutch-born, Belgian artist Bram Bogart (1921–2012), paint is treated foremostly as physical matter, the medium’s material affordances extended to bring it to the limits of its sculptural properties. Primarily an abstract artist, Bogart explored how the ‘script’ of a painting, or the ‘non-repetitive element of rhythmical brush strokes’, could ignite abstraction with meaning. During his long career, Bogart immersed himself in the formal concerns of painting, working through numerous stylistic shifts including an early period of figuration; followed by cubist geometric abstraction; gestural abstraction; and finally, the sensual paintings heavily ladened with paint, for which he is acclaimed. Through a process of building-up, and making manifest the fusion of artistic gesture with painterly substance, Bogart’s interrogations yielded emphatically sculptural works freighted with a physical presence.

Gallery address: 50 Connaught Road Central