Ralph Müller, IST NOCH WAS, 2023, oil on canvas, 130 x 98 cm
Ralph Müller »IST NOCH WAS«
Focus, January 18, 2024 - February 13, 2024
Ralph Müller’s latest middle and big scale paintings seem clear in appearance and are focused on the essentials. Mostly two colours are set in relation to each other. The paintings appear unique and independent – with their own necessity.
In a long process of an intuitive image finding, Müller reacts on everyday objects in his environment. Here he moves in his wide reference system of painting history, that ranges from early human drawings on rock walls to Renaissance portrait paintings, to the painting of the 20th Century.
IST NOCH WAS stems from the idea of a portrait, with reflections on modern technical methods of imaging procedures such as the MRI in medicine.
Ralph Müller was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1968. He lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include CRAMA Show Space Berlin, Germany (2022), Albrecht Kastein Urologisches Zentrum Berlin-Steglitz, Germany (2019), Galerie Horst Schuler Düsseldorf, Germany (2012), and Galerie Tatjana Pieters Ghent, Germany (2011). Galerie Tatjana Pieters Ghent also presented his work at ARCO Madrid (2011). Further group exhibitions include Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany (2010), Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan, Italy (2009), and Cabinet des Dessins, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France (2003).