Anselm Reyle

Anselm Reyle is a contemporary artist known for his reinvention, critique and allusions to Modernism. 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; 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)