OPEN: TUESDAY TO SATURDAY
FROM: 11AM TO 6PM
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Opened from December 20, Galerie Andrea Caratsch and Galerie von Opel jointly present Allegro, a new exhibition by artist Rolf Sachs with the Opening Reception being held on the December 29 from 18h to 20h.
Following his recent solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, Sachs brings to St. Moritz a selection of his most recent works, unveiling the latest chapter of his creative practice. Allegro, a term denoting a brisk and lively tempo in music, brings together a selection of 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 his painterly practice is most evident in the Touchée series, where the artist applies pigment directly to the surface with his hands. These compositions are charged with energy and dynamism, embracing the imperfections arising from the immediacy of each gesture and testifying to their physical and empathic intensity.
In the Défroissage series, the works on canvas and paper acquire a distinctly material quality. This subtle three-dimensionality results from the artist’s direct engagement with the medium. By folding, crumpling, and painting it, he creates surfaces that evoke landscapes and imaginary topographies, embracing chance and coincidence.
The clean, geometric language of the furniture pieces and sculptures resonates with the warm, human sensibility found in the works on paper and canvas. The exhibition’s vibrant rhythm mirrors Sachs’s artistic approach to his multidisciplinary practice: a continuous and fluid interplay of different energies and human expressions.
Rolf Sachs (b. 1955) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working in Rome. He applies a distinctive, humane, and conceptual approach across a multitude of mediums, ranging from painting and sculpture to photography and design. Since the 1990s, Sachs has challenged preconceived uses of materials, processes, and everyday objects, instilling them with new meaning.