Ohne Titel  2006

Mischtechnik auf Leinwand  84 x 150 cm

Ohne Titel  2008

Mischtechnik auf Leinwand  184 x 150 cm

Brandung 2007
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand  151 x 122 cm

Ohne Titel 2006/07

Mischtechnik auf Leinwand  184 x 150 cm

Ränder I-II 2007

Oel auf Buchrücken  je 22,5 x 31 cm

Ohne Titel  2007

Oel und Wachs auf Papier  je 24 x 27 cm

In situ I–II (aus Serie) 2007

Oel und Wachs auf Holz   24 x 27 cm

Places I–II  2008

Pigment auf Holz  30 x 40 cm

Ohne Titel 2008

Mischtechnik auf Leinwand  184 x 150 cm

Ohne Titel  2005/06

Mischtechnik auf Leinwand  184 x 150 cm

Flut  2007  Kunstrapport 07 Rheinfelden
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand  184 x 150 cm

Flut  2007
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand  184 x 150 cm

Installation «Bildorte» Kunstfelden 2 Rheinfelden 2008

Oel auf Folie  270 x 150 cm

Installation «Bildorte» Kunstfelden 2 Rheinfelden 2008

Oel auf Folie  270 x 150 cm

Thomas Ritz showes his newest paintings in the exhibition blue apricots from April 13th till Sat June 18th 2011

The last exhibition was other moments from April 8 - May 16 2009

1966 born in Basel, he lives and works in Basel
Study Hochschule für Gestaltung Basel  1982 - 1987

In situ - about the scene of the images    Thomas Ritz's painting and drawing targets the preservation of antidromic motions: the swing still swings gently in the wind. The scanty gras of the embankment meanders into the wide open/cavity. The inky dark covers the slowly vanishing heavenly bodies. His works change from appearance to vanishing. In the brush-strokes with pigments, oil, waxe or graphite the eyes always follow the escaping gesture of the hand. This will occur until vision and description - as in the "apogee" of the swing - will be congruent.

Thomas Ritz's paintings are situated precisely at the interface between two directions of movement. They decamp and distend their intersections. Thus, the television, bed, bird, spoon and armchair will become codes for a vision that is led into the interior of the picture and back in front of it again. Thereby, the objects in the pictures are separated from the visibility of the objects of everyday life. The fall into an "interspace", where they are recollected and invented.

The works of Thomas Ritz also position the narrative in a chronological in-between. According to Thomas Ritz the picture occurs in exactly this "flaw". He intentionally leaves open, whether everything has already happened or has yet to happen. Thus, his painting and drawing dismantles the object parallel to its construction.   

Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Kunstwissenschaftlerin, Basel 2008     Traslation Esther Breger

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions  Selection

Publications

Works in private collections in Switzerland and Awards: ARK Basler Kunstpreis 2001; Förderpreis der Rheinischen Wirtschaft 1995