Reyle’s work is primarily comprised of fluorescent, eye-catching colours and he is known to use
found objects as his base materials – one of his most renowned works, his African Sculptures series, makes use of bronze casts coated with chrome derived from the handmade, cliché items you could expect to find in an African tourist market;
« Someone once said that my art always looks a bit like a film set, as if someone’s saying we need a bit of Modern Art in the background now. »
Anselm Reyle
this series is directly influenced by the works of
Henry Moore and Hans Arp and serves to highlight the tension between the forms of commodities across different cultures. Reyle himself has remarked on his own interest in the commodity and
kitsch nature of some
Read More Reyle’s work is primarily comprised of fluorescent, eye-catching colours and he is known to use
found objects as his base materials – one of his most renowned works, his African Sculptures series, makes use of bronze casts coated with chrome derived from the handmade, cliché items you could expect to find in an African tourist market;
« Someone once said that my art always looks a bit like a film set, as if someone’s saying we need a bit of Modern Art in the background now. »
Anselm Reyle
this series is directly influenced by the works of
Henry Moore and Hans Arp and serves to highlight the tension between the forms of commodities across different cultures. Reyle himself has remarked on his own interest in the commodity and
kitsch nature of some modern art – he stated: “It’s right that it is usually the cliché of something that interests me.” (
Artist website)
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