1967 born in Waldbröl, married, 2 children, lives and works in Berlin.
René Wirths appropriates small objects, such as a potato or a light bulb, and enlarges them in the sense of the blow-up effect. The focus is not on the object as such, but on the process of painting and the picture itself. Wirths formulates the close link between painting and observation as follows: “Painting serves observation and observation serves painting.”
The intensive perception of the “real world” combined with “passionate observation” is reflected in Wirths’ paintings.
When transferring a motif from the real world to the pictorial world, Wirths dispenses with any media preparation and, in contrast to photorealism, works without a photographic template. He always keeps the spaces in which the pictures are exhibited in mind.
