David Renggli & Thomas Wachholz: Let's Get Lit

“Let’s Get Lit” is the second part of the double exhibition of new works by David Renggli (*1974, lives in Zurich) and Thomas Wachholz (*1984, lives in Cologne), organized in collaboration with Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles.

David Renggli’s series of the Desire Paintings are already a priori inscribed with a poetic and humorous dimension by their location of the word 'desire' in the title. These are medium to large format paintings of silhouette-like silhouettes and geometric forms on wood, framed in an object frame and covered on their upper edge with a coarse-meshed jute net. The fibrous jute fabric is also painted, which results in an overlapping of the motifs on different image planes. The spacing of these and the transparency of the coarse-meshed jute netting create an interesting optical effect as soon as the viewer moves in front of the work.