Ralf Altrieth - Sans titre - XL

Acrylic on heavyweight paper, ivory tone
105 x 75 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 takes us into a universe populated by figures that seem to emerge freely from imagination. Some shapes evoke characters or familiar beings, while others escape any precise identification. You think you recognize a silhouette, discover a gaze, grasp an expression… then the drawing carries us elsewhere, toward a new appearance.

The gesture is free, direct and full of life. Black or colored lines sit beside flat areas, nervy tracings and broad brushstrokes, in a spontaneous game between drawing and painting. The forms intersect, overlap and respond to one another, creating a composition where the energy of the gesture remains palpable. The colors, sometimes bold, sometimes softer and more nuanced, give each element its character and contribute to the joyful strangeness of this universe.

Playful without being naive, unusual without being cold, it possesses that rare quality of holding the eye: the more you observe it, the more new details appear, as if the figures continued to transform before our eyes.

Presented in an appropriate frame with a passe-partout, it reveals all its graphic strength and benefits from a breathing space that highlights the spontaneity of the drawing. On a wall, it brings a singular artistic presence, at once expressive, lively and slightly enigmatic, capable of giving character to a contemporary interior without ever blending into the decor.

This work bears witness to the personal language of Ralf Altrieth, at the border between instinctive drawing, free figuration and painting. A world where a few strokes, colors and an uncompromising gesture are enough to conjure up an entire little theater of characters, leaving to the imagination the pleasure of inventing their stories.

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 painterly poems of Ralf Altrieth are a pure childlike 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

"His writing through gesture and color describes a world open to new voices and to experiences 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, spontaneous universe, at the border between figuration and abstraction. Trained in his teens with the painter Georg Schaible and then at the Academy of Fine Arts of Nürtingen in the late 1980s, his work stands out for its rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. His works are now in numerous private collections around the world.

SHIPPING:

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