Artists

Christoph Ruckhäberle

Press release

The painter begins his research with drawing, which evolves into drawings of figure arrangements, possible situations or situations with possibilities. He redraws the image without thinking about the content until developing the line and the form in a series of paintings that dialogue, oppose or respond to each other, frontally and without intrigue. 

His painting is systematically built in a kind of challenge to academism. The image at Ruckhäberle is only called for the service of building a painting. He selects images to be transformed into paintings, treating them almost as randomly found elements, before the reign of imagery, not giving them any importance. They are used only to «masonry» a painting whose main intention is to give it a certain physicality: the painting must come out of the wall and not become a frame or window.  

Nevertheless, the presence of figures indicates an underlying narrative. Here is one of the borrowings and its diversion to academism: three figures, three graces, three witches, three mothers, three characters are summoned and diverted.