Ruffi receives the taste to paint alongside his mother then he will continue his pictorial ascent alone with an unfailing affection for nature, Normandy, the country of his childhood. When Ruffi de Pontevès started out on the art scene, 20 years ago, his first works were clearly and firmly rooted in abstraction. 

Only the spontaneity of the pictorial gesture enables him to take stock of the memories of the landscapes of his Normandy childhood. 

Energetically posing colours on the canvas, his approach thus runs counter to the majority of his contemporaries. 
For his part, he aims to pay tribute to painting and invites us to believe in its future. 
Not a painting that describes or illustrates, but painting for its own sake, with its colour, materiality, and the gestures that bring it to the canvas. 

In his latest canvases, Ruffi seems to draw the essence from his previous works,
his thirst for colour is now limitless, 
he emancipates himself, opening up new pathways and entering into a conversation.

Ruffi's paintings have been exhibited at many events :
Grand Palais / Comparaison - Réalitées Nouvelles Paris - Salon des Beaux Arts / Carré du Louvre - Salon d'Automne Paris -
Galerie Miromesnil 75008 - Galerie Mazarine 75006 - Galerie Nord Lille - Galerie RP Honfleur
Palazzo Bragadin Biennale de Venise 2022.

CURRENTLY : 
Galerie Visconti - 4, rue Visconti 75006 PARIS - Open thursday - friday - saturday - 14h/18h