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Born in 1970, Anselm Reyle already dealt ndash; at a time when the art market was screaming for figurative paintings ndash; with abstraction and formalism. He gives new impulses to subject matters that have been considered passeacute; since the age of modernism by working with present-day materials and associations. His pictures have realised record prices at auctions while the prices of his young German colleagues have stagnated. This year alone, two paintings by Reyle have been auctioned for a tenfold of their valuation price. It is therefore all the more astonishing that there has previously been only one exhibition catalogue (ARS NOVA, Kunsthalle Zurich, 2006) with Anselm Reyle's works. ...
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Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Essays by Bruce Hainley and Dominic Eichle.
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Anselm Reyle is one of the internationally most renowned German artists of his generation. Born in Tü bingen, he grew up in Heilbronn where he exhibited his work at Kunsthalle Vogelmann. The list of places where he has exhibited reads like a who's who of the art world: from Kunsthalle Zurich to Palazzo Grassi in Venice, from Deichtorhallen Hamburg to museums in the United States. His collaborations, such as with Dior for an exclusive series of handbags, are legendary. Anselm Reyle mixes styles, colors, and materials in a rather intriguing way, working with car paint, PVC and mirror film, spray paint, LED lights, concrete, and clay. Found objects as source material tend to play a prominent role in his work; these may be elements from works by other artists, as well as everyday objects, architecture, or design objects. This approach to his own work as reflection, appropriation, rephrasing and reformulation is thus made visible and addressed time and again. The viewers get caught up in the surprising beat of opposing formal as well as material samplings, in which the entire pictorial repertoire of modern abstract image development finds itself.
"I draw on modernism as a vocabulary," Anselm Reyle (b. T�bingen, 1970; lives and works in Berlin) says. "Mystic Silver" offers a comprehensive panorama of ca. 80 selected works representing various divisions of his oeuvre from the past several years. The book explains interconnections--as well as ties to other artists--and illustrates that Reyle doesn't see a contradiction between glossy finish and trash, between luxury and found objects.