About René Wirths
René Wirths, born in 1967 in Waldbröl, Germany, is a Berlin-based painter known for his meticulous and contemplative approach to still life. He studied philosophy and political science at Freie Universität Berlin before pursuing fine arts at Berlin University of the Arts between 1992 and 1998, where he was mentored by Wolfgang Petrick. Fascinated by questions of observation, perception and representation, René Wirths produces carefully framed meticulous paintings of mundane objects on a unicolored background, forcing the viewer into a head-on physical and metaphysical experience. In the last years he started to modify his processes, so the paintings became more and more independent and playful conglomerates of colors and forms, which made his former dogma, not to use other pictures or photographic aids uncompelling. Currently he is working on three pictures groups: object paintings, scripture paintings and interpretations of historical painting icons from the renaissance to the present day, which he calls painting paintings.
His work has been exhibited internationally in Berlin, Paris, Zurich, Seoul and more, and is celebrated for its technical mastery and meditative depth.
Photo René Wirths: Dale Grant
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