WOLFGANG BELLINGRADT

“Wolfgang Bellingradt’s extensive body of work encompasses varied disciplines,including painting, drawing, and installations; he is known to a wide audience through national and international exhibitions and publications. Bellingradt’s predominant themes are philosophic, focused on human beings’ struggle for cognition and knowledge and the consequences that derive from ones’ action and activities. He explores the results of impulses and motivations of behavior, on attempts at progress, and on errors and mistakes. Ultimately, Bellingradt’s work provokes questions that become personal for the observer.

“In my own life, experiences and insights found their way into my painting and I was no longer satisfied with superficial answers - I wanted to get to the bottom of things, and ‘The VIEW BEHIND’ became a defining theme in my work. Not only is content important, however, but also dealing with complex forms and colors, which has an aesthetic appeal for me. Where words fail, painting begins. For me, painting pictures is visualized thinking".