Ralf Altrieth - Sans titre - XL

Acrylic 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

DESCRIPTION:

A free, poetic and deeply living presence.

At the border between painting, drawing and plastic writing, this painting bears witness to a deeply personal language of Ralf Altrieth: an art of making arise, 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 thus moves from one form to another, gradually discovering a universe that seems both familiar and surprising.

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

CRITIQUE:

"There is a lot of poetry in this painting, as in all of this artist's works. They are populated with narrative codes and fantastical tales. In this sense, Ralf Altrieth's pictorial poems 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

"His writing through 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 recognized 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 Nürtingen University of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, his work is distinguished by a rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. His works are now held in numerous private collections around the world.

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