Ralf Altrieth (1966) - Sans titre - 2 pièces

Ralf Altrieth (Heilbronn, 1966).

Ink and oil on canvasboard, untitled, 2020

Set of 2 (ready to hang)

22 x 27 cm each

SOLD by: Recodier Art - agent, France

DOCUMENTATION :

A dated and signed certificate of authenticity is included.

DESCRIPTION :

Signed on the back 'Ralf Altrieth', with a black marker.

This set consists of two small paintings that interact closely with each other. On a deep black background, white shapes emerge with force, drawing stylized figures that hover between the character, the animal, and the sign.

In the first painting, an energetic red line comes to underline and disrupt the white form, emphasizing the sensation of movement and tension. In the second, a blue line structures the figure in a more frontal way, almost architectural, creating a marked contrast between stability and dynamism.

Presented together, these two works function as a variation around the same pictorial language. The contrast of colors — red and blue —, the repetition of shapes and the sobriety of black and white reinforce their complementarity. Each painting can be viewed individually, but their pairing reveals a balanced visual dialogue, at once playful, graphic, and expressive.

Ralf Altrieth (born in 1966 in Heilbronn, Germany) is a German painter and musician living in France since 2006. He has been expressing himself for more than thirty years through a plural artistic practice, which includes painting, drawing, linocut, installations, sculpture and photography, as well as contemporary music and jazz.

Very early drawn to the visual arts, he takes private lessons with painter Georg Schaible at the age of 14, before joining the Nürtingen Academy of Fine Arts from 1987 to 1989. In parallel, he discovers and practices the saxophone and jazz from the age of 20.

The career of Ralf Altrieth is defined by total artistic freedom: from his early days he has claimed an autonomy of creation that is expressed through a wide diversity of media and artistic languages.

He has lived and worked in several European cities — including Berlin, Freiburg, Erlangen, Paris and Venice — before settling permanently in the south of France, where he develops his practice.

Ralf Altrieth has exhibited in numerous galleries and cultural venues in France and abroad, including the Hartmut Beck Gallery in Erlangen, MAC Paris, the Galerie Théo de Seine in Paris, Galerie N5 in Montpellier, the Château d’Assas, and other art spaces. His works are in private collections in Europe and beyond.

In addition to his visual practice, he is the co-founder of the music label Meta Records and has collaborated with many musicians, often incorporating music as a source of inspiration into his visual work.

His work is frequently described as living at the intersection of gestural expressionism, neo-expressionism, and lyrical abstraction, where line and color function as a form of writing that explores movement, spontaneity, and intuitive narration.