Ralf Altrieth - Sans titre - XL

Acrylic on heavyweight paper, ivory tone
75 x 105 cm

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

DESCRIPTION:

This original work on paper by Ralf Altrieth unfolds a free and instinctive universe, populated by hybrid figures and shapes that seem to emerge directly from the gesture. Sometimes a few lines are enough to reveal a face, a body, or an entire creature. Nothing is fixed: the forms seem able to transform at any moment.

Drawing occupies an essential place here. Spontaneous lines, flat areas, graphic marks and details combine with great freedom, giving paper an important role in the composition.

Between free figuration, instinctive drawing and graphic poetry, the work does not seek to tell a precise story. It rather invites the imagination to establish its own associations. The eye moves from one form to another, gradually discovering new details and presences.

Framed with a wide mat, it takes on its full dimension and leaves around it a breathing space that emphasizes the spontaneity of the drawing. Its presence, at once expressive, playful and poetic, naturally fits into a contemporary interior.

At the border between drawing and painting, this series bears witness to a deeply personal approach by Ralf Altrieth: a free visual language, where a few lines can suffice to conjure up an entire world.

CRITIQUE:

"There is a great deal of poetry in this painting, as in all the artist’s works. They are populated with narrative codes and fantastical tales. In this sense, the painterly poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childish chant... But the most surprising 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

"His gestural and color writing describes a world open to new voices and to experiments never attempted. His 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, renowned for his expressive and spontaneous universe, at the boundary of figuration and abstraction. Trained in his adolescence with painter Georg Schaible and then at the University of Fine Arts of Nürtingen in the late 1980s, his work stands out for its rare pictorial energy and a highly sensitive language. His works are today held in numerous private collections around the world.

SHIPPING:

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