Desire Painting (Alamy / Venice)
David Renggli
Painting - 114.5 x 87.5 x 6 cm Painting - 45.1 x 34.4 x 2.4 inch
€15,500
Painting - 114.5 x 87.5 x 6 cm Painting - 45.1 x 34.4 x 2.4 inch
€15,500
Painting - 118.5 x 93.5 x 4 cm Painting - 46.7 x 36.8 x 1.6 inch
€12,700
Painting - 125 x 95.5 x 6 cm Painting - 49.2 x 37.6 x 2.4 inch
€16,900
David Renggli's practice implies unbalance, and distills the doubt surrounding the permanence of the categories and styles that usually guarantee the validity of our perceptive framework. Fashioning a world populated by fakes, reflections, divided doubles, illusorily unsteady shapes, doctored memories, optical illusions that fool no one, tributes paid to the history of shapes and ideas and then quickly retracted, over the years this art has been capturing reality by means of its stand-in and has been poeticising the “fake".
Fake paintings, fake sculptures, fake photographs, fake objects, false equations—and yet, the artificial attains to something of an autonomous truth, or what could be called authenticity. Images that follow one another in an apparently offhand way seem to have no purpose beyond contradicting themselves. At the heart of this work, behind the sometimes accidental, incomplete and deeply absurd appearances of these assemblages, is the question of calculation, measure or logic: what principle is a work based on, what rule legitimises its presence in the exhibition?
These assemblages, both plausible and unreal, in which objects, references and citations proliferate, very often disconcert the viewer, tautologise doubt, reinforce everyday mystifications. David Renggli's works possess a kind of intrinsic fragility. They do not hide their own limits; they exhibit their faults and incoherence. This aporia of meaning very often unloads a dreamlike, melancholic burden.
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