Ralf Altrieth - Sans titre - XL

Acrylic painting on heavy paper, ivory tone
75 x 105 cm

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

Images shown framed with a mat are presentation suggestions.

DESCRIPTION:

A free, sensitive presence that is deeply alive.

This original work on paper by Ralf Altrieth unfolds an instinctive universe where fragmented figures, drifting gazes, and animal shapes seem to appear and then disappear in the material. Between softness and graphic tension, the composition retains something immediate, which draws the eye for a long time without ever fully seizing it.

Direct, spontaneous lines dialogue with quieter flat areas, creating a work that is both expressive and poetic. The colors, deliberately restrained and then suddenly pierced by more vivid 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 look at not only for their subject, but for the atmosphere they establish. Framed with a wide mat, it takes on an almost architectural dimension and immediately transforms the surrounding space.

At the border 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 artist's works. They are populated with narrative codes and fantastic tales. In this sense, the pictorial poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childish chant... But the most astonishing thing that manifests in these paintings is a communicative tenderness for the states of mind of human beings."
— Dr. Friedhelm Häring, museum director and art historian

"Its gesture-and-color writing describes a world open to new voices and to experiences never attempted. Its canvases and works on paper demonstrate that painting remains a major expression of the contemporary scene."
— Laurent Puech, art historian and curator

BIOGRAPHY:

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

SHIPPING:

Tracked shipment with signature required. The work will be shipped rolled in a sturdy tube to ensure safe transport.