First Edition / ANSELM REYLE / Ars Nova 2006 -Essays by Bruce Hainley

  
REYLE, Anselm, HAINLEY, Bruce, EICHLER, Dominic. Perfect / No dust jacket as issued. Text in German and English. Essays by Bruce Hainley and Dominic Eichler. Includes a list of illustrations, biography, exhibition history and a bibliography. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich.

From the publisher: This luxurious four-color album, with two additional fluorescent colors, has been made to the young German artist's specifications. While Reyle is primarily a painter, it is light in particular with which his paintings are concerned, both the light hitting pigment on canvas and, particularly, electric light, pale and acid, from the lamps and neon signs of the modern landscape. His found objects, almost readymades, function, therefore, like indices to his pictorial work.

The phosphorescence of the paint, or that the paint gives to the objects, can be understood as a puzzle about a problematic medium, one whose solution here induces a new confidence and surprising expectations and wakes up the gaze. Reyle is represented in New York by Gavin Brown. 8.25 x 11.25 inches. 1970 is a German artist who lives in Berlin.

His work is characterized by its use of everyday objects and materials like colored foil, acrylic medium and pastes, or automotive lacquer to create an environment that masks the original identity of these objects, thus challenging the spectator's view of usual objects taken out of their context. Although committed to abstraction, he lately experimented with representational motives including the principle of the paint-by-numbers. This is the catalog of the artist's first solo exhibition.