Ralf Altrieth - Sans titre - XL

Acrylic painting on sturdy paper, ivory tone
75 x 105 cm

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

The images in situ with mat are presentation suggestions.

DESCRIPTION:

A free, sensitive and deeply living presence.

This original work on paper by Ralf Altrieth unfolds an instinctive universe where fragmented figures, drifting gazes and animal shapes seem to appear and then disappear into the material. Between softness and graphic tension, the composition preserves something immediate, which draws the eye for a long time without ever letting it be fully grasped.

Direct, spontaneous lines dialogue with quieter, more silent flat areas, creating a work that is both expressive and poetic. The colors, deliberately restrained and then suddenly pierced by more vivid accents, give the paper a very particular vibration, subtle yet intensely present in an interior space.

The work possesses that rare quality of pieces that you don’t look at only for their subject, but for the atmosphere they establish. Framed with a wide mat, it takes on an almost architectural dimension and instantly transforms the space around it.

At the boundary between free figurative, instinctive drawing and plastic writing, this work testifies to a deeply personal approach, without easy decorative effect. A singular, inhabited piece that naturally finds its place in contemporary interiors sensitive to living and authentic art.

CRITIQUE:

"There is a lot 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 pictorial poems of Ralf Altrieth 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 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 recognized for his expressive and spontaneous universe, at the border between figuration and abstraction. Trained in adolescence with painter Georg Schaible and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nürtingen at the end of the 1980s, his work is distinguished by rare pictorial energy and a particularly sensitive language. His works are today in numerous private collections around the world.

SHIPPING:

Tracked shipping with hand-delivery. The work will be shipped rolled in a sturdy tube to ensure secure transport.