Abstract Relief Assemblage by André Bogaert, Belgium 1965
Abstract Relief Assemblage by André Bogaert (1920-1986), Belgium 1965. Bogaert was an abstract expressionist who always put the experiment at first place. He started observing and questioning the world of painting in the beginning of the Pop art movement and found his own medium of expression in the Assemblage art, actually arising from the earlier Dada movement. It gave him the way to rage against the conservative art world and as well the possibility of limit less experiments with forms. He was looking for simple materials he found around his place of Birth Durme, coming from the textile industry; leather, felt, rubber, coils, burned wood or plotted metals and plastics. The use of these modest materials in a totally different context yielded interesting outspoken and aesthetic works. This work is a good and early example made from buffalo leather which got a totally different feeling due to the balanced ordening and rhythmic repetition. The work stands on it's original metal presentation frame created by Bogaert to display his works in his atelier and for expositions, besides this way of presentation it's also possible to hang it on the wall. Signed at the back: Bogaert 1965. In excellent original condition.