The catalogue Alexander Wolff – Picturesque presents a selection of works produced by the artist over the past fifteen years.

The publication traces Wolff’s sustained engagement with painting and image-making, focusing on his exploration of pictorial structures, surface, and the shifting relationship between representation and abstraction.

Working with references drawn from everyday visual culture, art history, and the language of modernist painting, Wolff develops compositions that question how images are constructed and perceived. His paintings often operate between figuration and abstraction, combining precise painterly decisions with a reflective approach to the medium itself. In this sense, the notion of the “picturesque” becomes less a stylistic category than a framework for examining how images generate meaning through composition, colour, and visual rhythm.

The book brings together essays and reflections on Wolff’s practice by Camila McHugh, Nikola Dietrich, Christian Egger, Kerstin Cmelka, Nora Schultz, Ariane Müller and Sabrina Soyer. It also includes Marcelin Pleynet’s seminal essay Painting and “Reality” (1969), presented here for the first time in an English translation from the original French.