In his Desire Paintings, Renggli zooms into the traditional support material of a painting, the canvas, and penetrates with a microscopic gaze through the thinned-out paint surface in the foreground. Through the superimposition of various levels of figures (only graphically alluded to in the foreground) on the one hand, and motifs hidden behind the wide-meshed grid on the other hand, almost impossible to grasp, but where potentials emerge in the interstices. Renggli’s use of jute netting material in his ‘Desire’ series derives from finding jute netting mesh used on the side of mountains in Switzerland to prevent mud and rockslides. Renggli used this, as a type of ‘objet trouvé’ to then developed into a series that began in 2015, offering a new compositional structure and one with multi-part pictorial possibilities.

Works from Renggli's 'Desire' series are part of numerous private collections across Europe.