Alfred d'Ursel

Alfred d’Ursel paints with a velvet, thin layer on wooden panels, creating works that are quiet yet deeply evocative. His paintings employ a cinematic approach to image building, weaving a detached auto-fiction that explores fear, loathing, and the intangible voids left by disappearance or anticipation. Through subtle colours and minimalistic outlines, d’Ursel constructs anonymous silhouettes, lonely figures on distant horizons, and fleeting narratives that resonate with an eerie sense of absence. His paintings are enigmatic and atmospheric, capturing transient moments with an unsettling yet tranquil tone. Like stills from a mysterious film, they offer a glimpse into unknown stories while withholding their full context. The intangible quality of d’Ursel’s works immerses viewers in a space of introspection, where the boundaries between what is seen and what is hidden blur, amplifying their opaque and haunting beauty.