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FS.ART Bodensee

Anselm Reyle / Ewiges Licht

Duration: 26.10.2024 to 15.02.2025
(closed from 21.12.2024 to 08.01.2025)
Artist Talk with Anselm Reyle: Thursday 28.11.2024, 7pm

Opening hours:
Every Thursday 4pm to 7pm
Every Saturday 11am to 2pm
or by appointment on +49-030-44356657 or kontakt@fs-art.de

The exhibition by Anselm Reyle offers a comprehensive overview of the artist’s body of work, featuring pieces from various series.

Anselm Reyle’s oeuvre is characterized by a captivating diversity and a consistent play with materials, colors, and forms. In his art, high and low culture, urban glamor, and post-industrial bleakness merge into a distinctive aesthetic language. Reyle utilizes strategies such as appropriation and ready-made to transform everyday objects and materials, reconfiguring them to embed them within an expanded art historical context. His use of foils, lacquers, and neon lights, in particular, evokes the aesthetics of consumerism and mass production, which he transforms into artworks of overwhelming presence.

A central aspect of Reyle’s work is the interplay of different materialities and surfaces. His sculptures, wall paintings, lightboxes, and installations often appear hyper-polished at first glance but reveal a complex sensitivity to chance and experimentation upon closer inspection. The reflective surfaces of his works, often based on industrial foils, glossy lacquers, or texture-focused paintings, navigate between superficial sheen and deeper substance. Reyle does not engage in painting in the traditional sense but rather stages it, drawing from movements like German Informel or American Color Field painting in a manner akin to remixes in 1990s music. Instead of getting lost in formal quotations, he reinterprets these influences and places them in the context of a postmodern world marked by mass production, digital aesthetics, and the dissolution of traditional artistic categories.

Light also plays a central role in Reyle's work, whether indirectly through reflections and mirroring or directly through the use of neon lights. Fittingly, “Eternal Light” is the title Reyle has chosen for his exhibition in Tettnang. Reyle often uses exhibition titles he considers "found objects"—originating from song titles of heavy metal or punk bands, B-movies, or similar sources. In doing so, Reyle hints at the transcendental in his work, while simultaneously imbuing this pathos with a touch of irony—something that could be seen as emblematic of his entire oeuvre.

Anselm Reyle succeeds in subversively blurring the boundaries between art and everyday materials, thereby posing new questions about the value and significance of art in the age of reproducibility. His works are at once monumental and fragile, clearly structured and yet full of ambivalent meanings—a fascinating reflection of our times.

FS.ART October 2024