Andreas Rüthi was born 1956 in Zürich, Switzerland. He studied painting under Jan Sierhuis and Peter Reisma from 1987 to 1990 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. After his studies in Holland he worked from 1990 in London, where his early group shows include the 1990 touring show British New Contemporaries including young British artists such as Damien Hirst, Glenn Brown and Mark Leckey. His much celebrated still life paintings where shown regularly from the mid nineties onwards in the Europe, the US and Australia. Juxtaposing knick-knacks with postcards representing figures from the canon of 20th century art, such as Mondrian or Giacometti. In his unlikely partnering of objects with artists, Rüthi has staged these still-life paintings in a way where each carefully chosen item has a meaning and contributes to the overall resonance of the work, acknowledging the past-masters of the still-life painting: Chardin, Cézanne and Morandi. Since working in rural Burgundy and Collioure in the south of France, his subjects also include landscape paintings – made en plein air or from drawings and watercolours. These hybrid landscapes play with spatial and temporal simultaneity, where the light and colours from different times of the day co-exist in a single painting. Rather than reconstructing an experience of a unified perspective, the new work is a collage of fragments, closer to the glow and transparency of stained glass windows. Rüthi’s recent work investigates new possibilities held within the tradition of painting, in particular relationships between scale and colour, synthesized from observation and the printed reproduction.