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:

A free-spirited, poetic, and deeply vibrant presence.

Straddling painting, drawing, and visual writing, this work bears witness to Ralf Altrieth’s deeply personal language: an art of conjuring worlds, seemingly governed by their own rules, from just a few lines and shapes.

Between free figuration, instinctive drawing, and graphic poetry, the work does not tell a specific story. Rather, it suggests situations, characters, and relationships that everyone is free to interpret. The eye moves from one form to another, gradually discovering a world that feels both familiar and surprising.

This painting has a presence in the space: it draws you in with its lines and contrasts, then holds your gaze with details and unexpected associations that gradually emerge. It brings a touch of freedom and poetry to an interior, without ever being reduced to a merely decorative effect.

CRITIQUE:

“There is a great deal of poetry in this painting, as there is in all of this artist’s work. They are populated with narrative codes and fantastic tales. In this sense, Ralf Altrieth’s pictorial poems are pure children’s songs... But the most astonishing thing that emerges in these paintings is a moving tenderness toward the emotional states of human beings.”
— Dr. Friedhelm Häring, museum director and art historian

“His gestural and chromatic language describes a world open to new voices and untried experiences. His canvases and works on paper demonstrate that painting remains a major form of expression on the contemporary art scene.”
— Laurent Puech, art historian and curator

BIOGRAPHY:

Ralf Altrieth (Heilbronn, 1966) is a Franco-German painter and musician, recognized for his expressive, spontaneous world at the boundary between figuration and abstraction. Trained as a teenager under painter Georg Schaible and later at the Nürtingen Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, his work is distinguished by its rare pictorial energy and particularly sensitive language. His works are now held in numerous private collections around the world.

SHIPPING:

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