David Renggli works with a specific sense of irony and humour
creating artworks that are capable of exisiting as slapstick
sculptures, large-scale installations and melancholic still-life
photography.

Renggli appropriates and conserves objects often utilising them
in combinations that entertain their own material existence;
balloons made with styrofoam burst at their seams; ceramic
post-it-notes are attached to walls, questioning their own
fragility and the relationship between their appearence and
their substance.

Combined the works of Renggli conjure the surreal and the
absurd, providing new sensations and refreshing perspectives
on our ways of seeing. Often ironically decorative, yet entirely
dysfunctional the works’ ambiguity and instability reflects
Renggli’s own artistic and aesthetic world whereby his practice
is not limited to any particular medium or strict interpretation of
the subject.

Through the transformation of everyday objects and low-grade
materials, Renggli’s works strike a ‘rare balance between
surrealism and precision’.

Born 1974, lives and Works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Represented by Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris.