ALEXANDER WERTHEIM

Alexander Wertheim’s work emerges from the tension between order and intuition, between the impulse of the gesture and the logic of the pattern. His paintings are built on the idea that the world is made of opposing forces, parallel and perpendicular, fluid and fixed, and that art can be a space where these contradictions coexist. Each piece is an attempt to bring fragments into coherence, to transform movement into structure without erasing its origin. In his studio, the process unfolds like a long improvisation. Patterns are rehearsed, repeated, and subtly altered over time, allowing the painting to evolve at its own rhythm. Colour functions less as shape and more as tone: a presence that moves across the canvas, shaped by the gestures that carry it. Wertheim’s practice embraces fallibility and precision alike, insisting that what is most human lies not in control, but in the ongoing negotiation between freedom and form.