(born Tübingen, Germany, in 1970)
Untitled, signed, dated on the stretcher A. Reyle, 2005, acrylic, silver foil and collage on canvas, 135 x 114 cm, on stretcher

Provenance:
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

“Reyle works in different media, utilizing strategies of painting, sculpture and installation and working in serial, structured work groups. The artist uses a vast and diverse group of materials taken from both traditional art and commercial milieus including colored foils from shop window displays, acrylic medium and pastes, automotive lacquer, and useless everyday garbage 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.”

The present painting belongs to his well-known series of stripe paintings in partly dissonant colour combinations. Their dynamic, lavishly folded and rugged surfaces emphasise their objecthood and spatial presence. Besides acrylic colours, Reyle uses silver foil, tinted mirrors, modelling pastes and lacquers.
(Gagosian Website/Wikipedia/Spiegel online, Interview with Karin Schulze, 12 November 2012)

“My stripe paintings can also be regarded as the ironic expression of poor imagination and monotonous repetition. And what fascinates me most about working with foil is that with a minimal amount of material one can achieve the greatest possible effects that impact only on the surface - that is, one does precisely what painting usually endeavours to avoid.” (Anselm Reyle)

From the Schumacher Collection Part I