René Wirths. Das Was Bleibt

About

René Wirths is best known for a novel form of still life. The carefully selected items that he brings to his studio as “models” turn into peculiar image objects on large-format canvases. They are characterized by strict top or profile views of the objects, by their image- or frame-filling composition, by a neutral “laboratory-cold background” (Hanno Rauterberg), by at times enormous magnification and amazing detail, turning the particular thing at hand into an image object floating at eye level. Painting ostensibly becomes a medium to analyze the essence of pictorial representation.

The exhibition also presents René Wirths as a portraitist. Both genres complement and penetrate his work in a variety of ways, and are grounded in a profoundly community-oriented humanism and in the body as a medium of perception.

Encounters

In the framework of the exhibition, public portrait sessions take place on seven Saturdays.

René Wirths is seeking project and conversation partners for the portrait series ” Begegnungen” [Encounters], which encompasses more than 100 works and is also part of the exhibition, on the following dates (14-18h, respectively):

February 4, 2017

February 11, 2017

February 18, 2017

February 25, 2017

March 4, 2017

March 11, 2017

March 18, 2017

Prior notification required under office@hal-berlin.de

(with further information about the selection process)