Ralf Altrieth - Why not ? - XL

Acrylic, oil pastel and crayon with sgraffito on strong paper, ivory tone
75 x 105 cm

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

DESCRIPTION:

A free, poetic, and deeply vibrant presence.

At the boundary between painting, drawing and plastic writing, this painting testifies to a deeply personal language of Ralf Altrieth: an art of making emerge, from a few lines and a few shapes, worlds that seem to have their own rules.

Between “free figuration,” instinctive drawing and graphic poetry, the work does not tell a precise story. It suggests rather situations, characters and relationships that each viewer is free to interpret. The gaze moves from one form to another, gradually discovering an universe that seems both familiar and surprising.

This painting has a presence in space: it attracts with its drawing and contrasts, then holds the eye with details and unexpected associations that appear little by little. It brings a touch of freedom and poetry to a interior, never reduced to a mere decorative effect.

CRITIQUE:

"There is a lot of poetry in this painting, as in all the artist’s works. They are populated by narrative codes and fantastic tales. In that sense, the painterly poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childish chant... But the most astonishing thing expressed 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 writing by gesture and color describes a world open to new voices and 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 crossroads of figuration and abstraction. Trained in adolescence with painter Georg Schaible and then at the Nürtingen University of Applied Arts in the late 1980s, his work is marked by rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. His works are now in numerous private collections around the world.

SHIPPING:

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