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Ralph de Lange Painter / Photographer The romantic issue Ralph works with the traditional genre of iconical portraits, with human gestures and particular scenery. He refers to several type of people and explores the human being and their way of perceiving the reality. The paintings are always large of scale and the subject is a choice from his collection of photos out of magazines. The exact nature of morality of the story becomes never clear. The work seems to have a moment in time but in the meantime the painting combination appears to be without a time table. They are presented as filmstills. The start of a story.The triptych acts as a replacing representation of the human essence. In recent work Ralph explored the edges of images on canvas. Elements of landscapes seems to get lost in a poetic setting of two or three paintings."¨The monochrome colours of the seperated works deals with the perception of nature and human behaviour. The word desire frequently emerges at the descriptions of his work. The tension between appearance and meaning becomes clear during the proces and choices of the artist .