Anselm Reyle
Untitled
Artista
Anselm Reyle
1970 Tübingen
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Provenienza
Acquired directly from the artist in 2020;
Private collection, Southern Germany.
Private collection, Southern Germany.
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Descrizione
• A particularly appealing, large-format work from the important ‘Foil-Paintings’ series
• In his work, Anselm Reyle explores the tension between the readymade and the aesthetics of everyday life
• His work is represented by, amongst others, the renowned König Galerie, Berlin, and is held in many international collections
The ‘Foil-Paintings’ are exemplary of Anselm Reyle’s artistic strategy: They reflect the conditions of contemporary image production, question the boundaries of painting and, at the same time, address the seductive power of surface and gloss in a visual culture shaped by consumerism. A characteristic feature is the use of crumpled, metallically shiny foil, which is stretched within a transparent Plexiglas box and thus oscillates between painting and object. The relief-like surface creates a dynamic interplay of light reflections and depth, whilst the smooth, industrial frame simultaneously prevents any tactile engagement. This tension characterises Reyle’s works. They combine the influences of Minimal and Op Art as well as the artistic strategies of the readymade. Anselm Reyle takes materials from consumer and everyday culture, removes them from their original context and transposes them into an aesthetic context. This creates a deliberately ambivalent relationship between ‘high’ and ‘low’, between art-historical tradition and decorative surface aesthetics.
• In his work, Anselm Reyle explores the tension between the readymade and the aesthetics of everyday life
• His work is represented by, amongst others, the renowned König Galerie, Berlin, and is held in many international collections
The ‘Foil-Paintings’ are exemplary of Anselm Reyle’s artistic strategy: They reflect the conditions of contemporary image production, question the boundaries of painting and, at the same time, address the seductive power of surface and gloss in a visual culture shaped by consumerism. A characteristic feature is the use of crumpled, metallically shiny foil, which is stretched within a transparent Plexiglas box and thus oscillates between painting and object. The relief-like surface creates a dynamic interplay of light reflections and depth, whilst the smooth, industrial frame simultaneously prevents any tactile engagement. This tension characterises Reyle’s works. They combine the influences of Minimal and Op Art as well as the artistic strategies of the readymade. Anselm Reyle takes materials from consumer and everyday culture, removes them from their original context and transposes them into an aesthetic context. This creates a deliberately ambivalent relationship between ‘high’ and ‘low’, between art-historical tradition and decorative surface aesthetics.