Marthe Wery is a Brussels Belgian painter born in 1930 in Etterbeek. Visits to numerous museums and galleries contributed to the artistic education, as did the courses that were attended as a free student at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière from 1952 onwards. The artist soon abandoned figuration and polychromy in favor of abstraction and monochromy, reducing her chromatic palette to black, white and gray.

The Belgian artist discovered American Minimalism during a trip to the United States, after which works gradually evolved towards radical painting. "All my work is an elementary quest to live the surface. Elementary, that is, seeking the essential through its minimum."...