Anselm Reyle - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • 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.

5

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.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for $109,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York