Price On Request 56,3 x 48 x 6,7 in (143 x 122 x 17 cm)Born in Tubingen – Germany, in 1970, Anselm Reyle studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe. He moved to Berlin in 1997 where he started a collaboration with John Bock, Dieter Detzner, Berta Fischer and Michel Majerus. From 1999 to 2001, Reyle had been working together with Claus Andersen and Dirk Bell for the artists' co-operative gallery ‘Andersen’s Wohnung’ as well as ‘Montparnasse’ with Dirk Bell and Thilo Heinzmann. After having held a position as guest-professor at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, Berlin and Hamburg, Reyle became a professor in Drawing/Painting in Hamburg in 2009. Reyle employs a plethora of techniques using both traditional media mixed with coloured foils, window displays, rich acrylic colours and pastes, automotive lacquer, and everyday items taken from urban areas. By removing these materials from their contexts and masking their original function, Reyle varies the degree to which each retains its respective visual reference. Utilizing formulas of appropriation, the work lets the viewer shift between moments of identification of individual elements within the work and periods of alienation due to their new context. Even the exhibition and work titles are very often citations from different fields, such as song texts. They function as objets-trouvés of the artist´s repertoire. The discrepancy in his works between the primarily sublime ideal of abstraction and the seemingly provocative decorative visual orientation generates an ambivalent tension and it is in this space that the form and subject matter drift apart. The spontaneity of concept and dynamic vitality of his works stand in contrast to the complex technical transformation that is itself only achievable with the help of many sophisticated technical processes used by...