A Moveable Feast - Part VIII - Exhibitions

Campoli Presti is pleased to announce the eighth part of A Moveable Feast – a year-long exhibition marking the gallery’s tenth anniversary – with a solo presentation by Christoph Ruckhäberle. The exhibition comprises four new paintings and a wallpaper installation.

This group of paintings presented in the exhibition feature indifferent women in languid poses. Although inspired by the classical figure of the muse portrayed indoors, the women are organised in surrealist angles. Placed in different interior settings, they evoke the artifice of theatrical backdrops, a motif that is extended in the wallpaper installation.

Ruckhäberle’s paintings are formed from a rich vocabulary of playful geometry and vivid colours that result in disconnected perspectives and rhythmic backgrounds. The successive superposition of elements, selected and rearranged in various configurations gives a quality in Ruckhäberle’s work that he describes as “a construction of reality, not a representation or impression”.

The use of independent colour fields and their organisation into background patterns reveal Ruckhäberle ‘s affinity with the linocut and other printmaking techniques that he develops in his graphic company Lubok Verlag, founded by the artist in 2007.