About the artist

Rudolf Boogerman

Mixed media artist. He uses his camera like a brush to create moving images, often expressing, yet not limited to, abstracted ideas about human nature and (r)evolution. Rudolf played around with primitive webcams before he got himself a Sony HDR-FX1 camcorder with which he filmed all his Wooden Dimensions artwork. Later on, he created various experimental short films, which he called “Patterns and rhythms in nature”(see Video art).
Since October 2020, he works primarily on digital art in the form of NFTs using video, sound, photography, Artificial Intelligence (machine learning/gan) and sporadically 3D.

He went to a Graphic arts school (SISA) in Antwerp (Belgium). For a period of time, he became an apprentice of  several artists where-under Eduard Leibovitz (glass sculptor), with whom in 1985 he rented an art studio in Antwerp. Next to his artwork, he made a living as a freelance illustrator/graphic designer, working primarily for advertising agencies and publishers.

He moved to the UK in 1990 where he began his art series. He created several projects: “Mirrors on the Wall”, “Travel Series”, “Wooden Dimensions” and “Lost Corners“.
In 2007 he moved back to Belgium, creating primarily art videos and cardboard artwork, the latter he filmed initially to demonstrate, later on the cardboards became actors in his art videos.

From October 2020, under the name of his alter ego Raboo, Rudolf created several art series inspired by architecture and the Dutch painter Escher, using artificial intelligence and image editing. More info: 4D Architecture

Tangled trees (the cryptoart version) was featured in a live stream of ArtProject 2020 during the Vancouver Biennale:

Selection of NFT art events and exhibitions

Selection of traditional exhibitions

Publications

Art directors’ Index to illustrators- issue 13 Rotovision Swiss
Sept ’94 De Morgen, Belgian newspaper
Sept ’94 Art directors’ Index to illustrators- issue 14 Rotovision Swiss
Sept ’95 Art directors’ Index to illustrators- issue 15 Rotovision Swiss
Sept ’95 Catalog Salon d’Artistes, Mechlin
April ’95 Gazet van Antwerpen, Belgian newspaper
April ’95 Gazet van Antwerpen, Belgian newspaper
April ’95 Het Nieuwsblad, Belgian newspaper
Dec ’96 Hamburger Abendblatt, German newspaper
Sept ’97 Gazet van Antwerpen, Belgian newspaper
Sept’ 97 Radio interview: Studio Brussel, radiostation Belgium
Sept ’97 Radio interview: Radio Centraal, radiostation belgium
Nov 2000 Catalog ‘Sokism’ 2000, Korea
May 2001 Impress Design, Interview in Korean magazine on graphic design.
Aug 2002 Catalog Sokillustration 02
July 2003 Catalog Le Chaperon Rouge
Nov 2003 Catalog Sokillustration 03
Nov 2010 Gazet Van Antwerpen
Sept 2010 Interview by Laura Tetrault, londonartgirl.
Febr 2017 TV interview TVLux
July 2021 Interview with Electric Artifacts.
September 2021 Interview with Claudia Pawlak from Ephimera.