Ralf Altrieth (1966) - Sans titre - XL

Acrylic painting on strong 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 a passe-partout are presentation suggestions.

DESCRIPTION:

A free, sensitive and deeply 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 in the material. Between softness and graphic tension, the composition preserves something immediate, which draws the eye for a long time without ever being fully grasped.

The nerve-like and spontaneous lines dialogue with quieter, flat areas, creating a work that is both expressive and poetic. The colors, deliberately restrained and then suddenly traversed by livelier 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 passe-partout, it takes on an almost architectural dimension and immediately transforms the space around it.

At the border between libre figuration (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 artist’s works. They are teeming with narrative codes and fantastical tales. In this sense, the pictorial poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childish chant... But the most astonishing thing manifested in these paintings is a communicative tenderness for the states of mind of the human being."
— Dr. Friedhelm Häring, museum director and art historian

BIOGRAPHY:

Ralf Altrieth (Heilbronn, 1966) is a Franco-German painter and musician renowned for his expressive and spontaneous universe, at the border of figuration and abstraction. Trained in his teens with painter Georg Schaible and then 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 now in numerous private collections around the world.

SHIPPING:

Tracked shipping with signature. The artwork will be shipped rolled in a sturdy tube to ensure secure transport.