Ralf Altrieth - Les signaux multiples - XXL
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Ralf Altrieth; Les signaux multiples - XXL; acrylic on canvas, 150 × 180 cm; 2021; original edition; unique work, signed and dated on the back by the artist; certificate of authenticity signed by the artist; France.
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At first glance, Ralf Altrieth's painting seems to emerge from a free, almost instinctive gesture. But very quickly, something else asserts itself: an underlying organization, an internal logic that goes beyond mere spontaneity. For him, matter is never decorative. It acts.
More than an image, each piece acts like an active surface — a space where the gaze circulates, hesitates, returns. And where, in the end, something happens.
Ralf Altrieth's practice is set in a constant tension between control and abandonment. Imprints, pressures, superpositions: the gesture is often indirect, as if the image refused to be entirely decided in advance. What appears is not illustrated — it is revealed. A form arises, then transforms, then hesitates. And it is precisely in this in-between that the work draws its strength.
One could speak of a pictorial language built from processes: repetition, variation, controlled accidents. But reducing this work to a method would miss the point. Because behind this apparent machinery lies a very particular sensitivity — a form of gentleness, sometimes even tenderness, that surfaces in the tensions of the material.
His works do not seek to seduce through spectacle or visible virtuosity. They settle in another way. By their density. By their presence. And by this rare ability to transform the space in which they take place.
TECHNIQUE:
Acrylic on canvas, 2021
Thick professional-grade canvas
150 × 180 cm
Unique work, hand-painted
Excellent condition
Signed and dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
CRITIQUE AND PRESS:
"In this sense, the pictorial poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childish chant. From the crucible of improvisation, he forges a world intact, made of spontaneous joys and strong impulses."
— Dr Friedhelm Häring, art historian and museum director
"There is in Ralf Altrieth's painting a generosity that has its own imagery and color language, without turning color into a creed, funny without wanting to caricature, joyful without idealism, energetic without being thunderous, in short a language deeply human."
— Bernard Pignero, writer
"The eye must rebound, cling, detach; it is captured by color, by the energy of the gesture, by strange cohabitations, by the musical rhythms of jazz where Ralf Altrieth also works as a saxophonist, an improvisation enthusiast."
— Stéphane Cerri, journalist
SHIPPING:
The canvas is shipped rolled, carefully protected in a sturdy tube to guarantee safe transport.
The indicated dimensions refer to the work once stretched on a frame. The canvas includes extra white margins to allow easy re-tensioning. The buyer may entrust this work to their local framer.
NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS, 1993 - 2026:
MAC Paris
Galerie LATELIER, Sète
L’espace d’art Chaillioux, Fresnes
A.R.P.A.C., Castelnau-Le-Lez
Galerie Le Lieu Multiple, Montpellier
Galerie N5, Montpellier
Château d'Assas, Le Vigan
A DESSIN 4, Sète
Galerie My Art Goes Boom, Sète
Galerie La Salamandre, Nîmes
Galerie 75, Rouen
SMAC Festival, Toulon
Pop Up, Notre-Dame de la Rouvière
Galerie My Art Goes Boom, Nîmes
Espace des Arts, Le Boulou
Galerie Plurielle, Sète
Galerie U, Baiersbronn, Germany
Galerie Théo de Seine, Paris
Galerie L’Étang D’Art, Bages
Galerie Via Arte, Honfleur
Galerie 175, Dozulé
Galerie Au Quai Dock, Lisieux
Galerie Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
EWE, Freiburg, Germany
Seller's Story
Ralf Altrieth is a Franco-German painter, recognized for his expressive and spontaneous universe, at the border between figuration and abstraction.
His work, nourished by more than thirty years of creation between painting and music, is distinguished by a rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. Trained in his teens with the painter Georg Schaible, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nürtingen at the end of the 1980s, his works are today in numerous private collections around the world. Shown in many galleries and European art venues, he lives and works today in the south of France.
Translated by Google TranslateAt first glance, Ralf Altrieth's painting seems to emerge from a free, almost instinctive gesture. But very quickly, something else asserts itself: an underlying organization, an internal logic that goes beyond mere spontaneity. For him, matter is never decorative. It acts.
More than an image, each piece acts like an active surface — a space where the gaze circulates, hesitates, returns. And where, in the end, something happens.
Ralf Altrieth's practice is set in a constant tension between control and abandonment. Imprints, pressures, superpositions: the gesture is often indirect, as if the image refused to be entirely decided in advance. What appears is not illustrated — it is revealed. A form arises, then transforms, then hesitates. And it is precisely in this in-between that the work draws its strength.
One could speak of a pictorial language built from processes: repetition, variation, controlled accidents. But reducing this work to a method would miss the point. Because behind this apparent machinery lies a very particular sensitivity — a form of gentleness, sometimes even tenderness, that surfaces in the tensions of the material.
His works do not seek to seduce through spectacle or visible virtuosity. They settle in another way. By their density. By their presence. And by this rare ability to transform the space in which they take place.
TECHNIQUE:
Acrylic on canvas, 2021
Thick professional-grade canvas
150 × 180 cm
Unique work, hand-painted
Excellent condition
Signed and dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
CRITIQUE AND PRESS:
"In this sense, the pictorial poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childish chant. From the crucible of improvisation, he forges a world intact, made of spontaneous joys and strong impulses."
— Dr Friedhelm Häring, art historian and museum director
"There is in Ralf Altrieth's painting a generosity that has its own imagery and color language, without turning color into a creed, funny without wanting to caricature, joyful without idealism, energetic without being thunderous, in short a language deeply human."
— Bernard Pignero, writer
"The eye must rebound, cling, detach; it is captured by color, by the energy of the gesture, by strange cohabitations, by the musical rhythms of jazz where Ralf Altrieth also works as a saxophonist, an improvisation enthusiast."
— Stéphane Cerri, journalist
SHIPPING:
The canvas is shipped rolled, carefully protected in a sturdy tube to guarantee safe transport.
The indicated dimensions refer to the work once stretched on a frame. The canvas includes extra white margins to allow easy re-tensioning. The buyer may entrust this work to their local framer.
NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS, 1993 - 2026:
MAC Paris
Galerie LATELIER, Sète
L’espace d’art Chaillioux, Fresnes
A.R.P.A.C., Castelnau-Le-Lez
Galerie Le Lieu Multiple, Montpellier
Galerie N5, Montpellier
Château d'Assas, Le Vigan
A DESSIN 4, Sète
Galerie My Art Goes Boom, Sète
Galerie La Salamandre, Nîmes
Galerie 75, Rouen
SMAC Festival, Toulon
Pop Up, Notre-Dame de la Rouvière
Galerie My Art Goes Boom, Nîmes
Espace des Arts, Le Boulou
Galerie Plurielle, Sète
Galerie U, Baiersbronn, Germany
Galerie Théo de Seine, Paris
Galerie L’Étang D’Art, Bages
Galerie Via Arte, Honfleur
Galerie 175, Dozulé
Galerie Au Quai Dock, Lisieux
Galerie Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
EWE, Freiburg, Germany
Seller's Story
Ralf Altrieth is a Franco-German painter, recognized for his expressive and spontaneous universe, at the border between figuration and abstraction.
His work, nourished by more than thirty years of creation between painting and music, is distinguished by a rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. Trained in his teens with the painter Georg Schaible, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nürtingen at the end of the 1980s, his works are today in numerous private collections around the world. Shown in many galleries and European art venues, he lives and works today in the south of France.
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Artist
Ralf Altrieth
Sold with frame
No
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Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Les signaux multiples - XXL
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
France
Year
2021
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
150 cm
Width
180 cm
Style
Expressionism
Period
2020+
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