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On a white background, René Wirths reproduces objects, both enlarged and enriched, from every day life. Thereby, the reality of the object and the reality of the picture coexist. Alone the edges of the stretched canvas become the boundary between the inner reality of the depicted and it’s surrounding environment. When Wirths chooses an artifact for his artistic examination, he seems to always choose that one to which a certain symbolic value has been attached. Reproduced on canvas, the object turns into a statement on how we do “perceive” it, often superseding the “original” with …