Ralf Altrieth - Too much sleep - XL

Acrylic and oil pastel on heavyweight paper, ivory tone
75 x 105 cm

Signed dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by Ralf Altrieth

Images in situ and with mat are presentation suggestions.

DESCRIPTION:

A free, sensitive and profoundly living presence.

This original work on paper by Ralf Altrieth unfolds an instinctive universe where fragmented figures, floating gazes, and animal shapes seem to appear and then disappear into the material. Between gentleness and graphic tension, the composition preserves something immediate, which draws the eye for a long time without ever allowing itself to be completely grasped.

Direct and spontaneous lines dialogue with quieter flat areas, creating a work that is at once expressive and poetic. The colors, deliberately restrained and then suddenly pierced by brighter accents, give the paper a very particular vibration, subtle yet intensely present in an interior.

The work possesses that rare quality of pieces that you don’t look at only for their subject, but for the atmosphere they create. Framed with a wide mat, it takes on almost architectural dimensions and immediately transforms the space around it.

At the boundary between free figuration, instinctive drawing and plastic writing, this work testifies to a deeply personal approach, without easy decorative effect. A singular, inhabited piece that naturally finds its place in contemporary interiors sensitive to living and authentic art.

CRITIQUE:

"There is a lot of poetry in this painting, as in all the works of this artist. They are populated with narrative codes and fantastic tales. In this sense, the painterly poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childish chant... But the most astonishing thing that manifests in these paintings is a contagious tenderness for the states of mind of the human being."
— Dr. Friedhelm Häring, museum director and art historian

"His gesture and color writing describe a world open to new voices and experiments never tried. His canvases and works on paper demonstrate that painting remains a major expression of the contemporary stage."
— Laurent Puech, art historian and curator

BIOGRAPHY :

Ralf Altrieth (Heilbronn, 1966) is a Franco-German painter and musician recognized for his expressive and spontaneous universe, at the border between figuration and abstraction. Trained in his teens with painter Georg Schaible and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nürtingen in the late 1980s, his work is distinguished by a rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. His works are today in numerous private collections worldwide.

SHIPPING :

The work will be shipped rolled in a sturdy tube to ensure secure transport.
It is entrusted to an express carrier guaranteeing home delivery, with full tracking and signature on delivery, in order to ensure the best protection of the artwork until it is handed over to the recipient.