Ralf Altrieth - Come on let's dance - XXL
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Ralf Altrieth, Come on let's dance - XXL, acrylic on canvas, 150 × 95 cm, original unique work signed by the artist in 2025.
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Something ancient resurges in color.
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 simple spontaneity. For him, the material is never decorative. It acts.
His practice is set in a constant tension between control and surrender. Imprints, pressures, overlays: 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 emerges, then transforms, then hesitates. And it is precisely in this in-between that the work gains its strength.
In this universe, the boundary between abstraction and figuration remains deliberately unstable. Possible silhouettes surface, presences are suggested, without ever fixing. The gaze is invited, set in motion. Seeing becomes an active, almost physical experience.
One could speak of a pictorial language built from processes: repetition, variation, controlled accidents. But reducing this work to a method would miss the essential. For behind this apparent mechanism, there is a very particular sensitivity — a form of gentleness, sometimes even tenderness, that surfaces in the tensions of the matter.
Each work functions as a field of possibilities. Nothing is imposed, everything is offered. It is a painting that does not immediately reveal its answers, but opens spaces.
In Ralf Altrieth’s career, this approach holds a singular place: it marks a moment when painting ceases to represent and becomes a place of appearance. A terrain where something can happen, without being completely controlled.
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 capacity to transform the space in which they take place.
More than an image, each piece acts as an active surface — a space where the gaze circulates, hesitates, returns. And where, in the end, something happens.
TECHNIQUE:
Acrylic on canvas, 2025
Thick, professional-quality canvas
150 × 95 cm
Unique work, hand-painted
Excellent condition
Signed and dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by Ralf Altrieth
CRITIQUE ET PRESSE:
"In this sense, Ralf Altrieth’s pictorial poems are a pure childlike chant. From the crucible of improvisation, he brings forth a pristine world 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 language, vivid and colorful, without turning color into a creed, funny without trying to be caricatural, 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 the color, by the energy of the gesture, the strange cohabitations, 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 correspond to the work mounted on a frame. The canvas includes additional 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 TranslateSomething ancient resurges in color.
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 simple spontaneity. For him, the material is never decorative. It acts.
His practice is set in a constant tension between control and surrender. Imprints, pressures, overlays: 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 emerges, then transforms, then hesitates. And it is precisely in this in-between that the work gains its strength.
In this universe, the boundary between abstraction and figuration remains deliberately unstable. Possible silhouettes surface, presences are suggested, without ever fixing. The gaze is invited, set in motion. Seeing becomes an active, almost physical experience.
One could speak of a pictorial language built from processes: repetition, variation, controlled accidents. But reducing this work to a method would miss the essential. For behind this apparent mechanism, there is a very particular sensitivity — a form of gentleness, sometimes even tenderness, that surfaces in the tensions of the matter.
Each work functions as a field of possibilities. Nothing is imposed, everything is offered. It is a painting that does not immediately reveal its answers, but opens spaces.
In Ralf Altrieth’s career, this approach holds a singular place: it marks a moment when painting ceases to represent and becomes a place of appearance. A terrain where something can happen, without being completely controlled.
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 capacity to transform the space in which they take place.
More than an image, each piece acts as an active surface — a space where the gaze circulates, hesitates, returns. And where, in the end, something happens.
TECHNIQUE:
Acrylic on canvas, 2025
Thick, professional-quality canvas
150 × 95 cm
Unique work, hand-painted
Excellent condition
Signed and dated on the back by the artist
Certificate of authenticity signed by Ralf Altrieth
CRITIQUE ET PRESSE:
"In this sense, Ralf Altrieth’s pictorial poems are a pure childlike chant. From the crucible of improvisation, he brings forth a pristine world 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 language, vivid and colorful, without turning color into a creed, funny without trying to be caricatural, 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 the color, by the energy of the gesture, the strange cohabitations, 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 correspond to the work mounted on a frame. The canvas includes additional 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
Come on let's dance - XXL
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
France
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
150 cm
Width
95 cm
Style
Expressionism
Period
2020+
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