Rolf Sachs Switzerland, b. 1955

From 20 December 2025 to 14 March 2026, Galerie Andrea Caratsch and Galerie von Opel jointly presented Allegro, an exhibition by artist Rolf Sachs.

Following his recent solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, Sachs brought to St. Moritz a selection of his most recent works, revealing the latest phase of his creative practice. Allegro, a term denoting a brisk and lively tempo in music, brought together paintings and drawings from his Défroissage and Touchée series, alongside a group of sculptural objects and the artist’s signature furniture pieces.

The impulsive spontaneity of Sachs’s painterly practice was most evident in the Touchée series, where he applied pigment directly to the surface with his hands. These compositions were charged with energy and dynamism, embracing the imperfections that arose from the immediacy of each gesture and reflecting their physical and emotional intensity.

In the Défroissage series, the works on canvas and paper acquired a distinct material quality. This subtle three-dimensionality resulted from the artist’s direct engagement with the medium. By folding, crumpling, and painting the surfaces, he created textures that evoked landscapes and imaginary topographies, embracing chance and coincidence.

The clean, geometric language of the furniture pieces and sculptures resonated with the warm, human sensibility found in the works on paper and canvas. The exhibition’s vibrant rhythm reflected Sachs’s multidisciplinary artistic approach, characterized by a continuous and fluid interplay of different energies and forms of human expression.

Rolf Sachs (b. 1955) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Rome. Across painting, sculpture, photography, and design, he applied a distinctive conceptual and human-centered approach. Since the 1990s, Sachs had challenged conventional uses of materials, processes, and everyday objects, imbuing them with new meanings.