RENAISSANCE REMOVAL (2026): Scale is preserved, but content is reconstructed, repainted, and reimagined with extraordinary technical precision and conceptual confidence, allowing what was once background to become the work’s central subject.

These connections to their biblical antecedents evoke the mantric ancestral narrative repeated across generations. Reiner introduces a new iteration of that continuum. The biblical stories that Renaissance painting sought to affirm as manifestations of a cosmic order are respectfully deconstructed, not to negate their significance, but to continue interrogating their meaning. Through a naturalistic reinterpretation, the artist reformulates an enduring question: can the essential force of these narratives persist in the absence of their traditional protagonists? Can nature itself assume the communicative and symbolic role once occupied by sacred figures?

The painting quite literally extrudes gesso. Executed in tempera, it is built through successive layers of color whose subtle manipulation produces unexpected spatial depth, compelling the viewer to reconsider the entire image.

The dialogue between the sculptural protrusions of gesso and the liquid, almost aqueous transparency of the paint generates a striking material tension. – Francesco Sutton