Anselm Reyle Untitled 2004 Neon, power cable, and metal chains. Installation: 52 x 74 x 24 in. (132.1 x 188 x 61 cm) approximately. This work is unique and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Provenance Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin; Private Collection Exhibited Aachen, NAK NeuerAachener Kunstverein, Anselm Reyle – Licht und Farbe, March - May, 2004; Zürich, Kunsthalle, Anselm Reyle Ars Nova, January - March 2006 Literature Ruf and Kunsthalle Zurich, eds., Anselm Reyle ARTS NOVA, Zurich, 2006, pp. 56-57 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay The present lot, Untitled, 2004, was the first neon sculpture ever conceived by Anselm Reyle. Combining neon, chains and cable, the tubes draw a composition of glowing colors harmonizing and clashing an overall effect. The vibrant colors provide certain solidity, but also it is light, at a magnitude less tangible. The present lot was included in his first museum solo show at the NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, in 2004, a testament to its significance within his entire body of work. Reyle has developed a style that is entirely his own by simultaneously assimilating and alienating great abstract genres and movements. He commandeers and enlivens stale notions of what is ‘modern’ in art by generating spontaneity. “Including objets trouvés…is important as an extension of pure painting. I move into this limited space of abstract painting, but then try to break it open, to extend it. Often with things that come from the outside, that I come across by chance. Materials, but also questions of style and taste as well, expressed in stereotyped pictorial forms.” (Anselm Reyle, in interview with Jens Asthoff, “Painting as Objets Trouvés,” Flash Art, July-September, 2006, p. 72.) Formally, a language of color and light and the connection between them is at the forefront of his approach. Read More
Anselm Reyle Untitled 2004 Neon, power cable, and metal chains. Installation: 52 x 74 x 24 in. (132.1 x 188 x 61 cm) approximately. This work is unique and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Provenance Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin; Private Collection Exhibited Aachen, NAK NeuerAachener Kunstverein, Anselm Reyle – Licht und Farbe, March - May, 2004; Zürich, Kunsthalle, Anselm Reyle Ars Nova, January - March 2006 Literature Ruf and Kunsthalle Zurich, eds., Anselm Reyle ARTS NOVA, Zurich, 2006, pp. 56-57 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay The present lot, Untitled, 2004, was the first neon sculpture ever conceived by Anselm Reyle. Combining neon, chains and cable, the tubes draw a composition of glowing colors harmonizing and clashing an overall effect. The vibrant colors provide certain solidity, but also it is light, at a magnitude less tangible. The present lot was included in his first museum solo show at the NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, in 2004, a testament to its significance within his entire body of work. Reyle has developed a style that is entirely his own by simultaneously assimilating and alienating great abstract genres and movements. He commandeers and enlivens stale notions of what is ‘modern’ in art by generating spontaneity. “Including objets trouvés…is important as an extension of pure painting. I move into this limited space of abstract painting, but then try to break it open, to extend it. Often with things that come from the outside, that I come across by chance. Materials, but also questions of style and taste as well, expressed in stereotyped pictorial forms.” (Anselm Reyle, in interview with Jens Asthoff, “Painting as Objets Trouvés,” Flash Art, July-September, 2006, p. 72.) Formally, a language of color and light and the connection between them is at the forefront of his approach. Read More
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