Teenage Wasteland

Anselm Reyle in Heilbronn. Anselm Reyle is one of the most internationally renowned German artists of his generation. Born in Tübingen and raised in Heilbronn, he will now occupy the entire Kunsthalle Vogelmann. The list of his exhibition venues reads like a Who's Who of the art world: from the Kunsthalle Zurich to the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, from the Deichtorhallen Hamburg to the Kunsthalle Tübingen. His collaborations, for example with Dior for an exclusive handbag series, are legendary. Anselm Reyle mixes styles, colors, and materials in an amazing way, working with car paint, PVC and mirror foil, spray paint, LED lights, concrete or clay. Found objects as source material play a prominent role in his work again and again, whereby these can be elements from the works of other artists as well as everyday objects, architecture, or even design. Accordingly, reflection, appropriation, reformulation, and new formulation determine his working method. The viewer is caught up in the surprising beat of contrasting formal and material samplings, in which the entire pictorial repertoire of modern abstract pictorial invention can be found. The planned book will show the room-sized wall works created on-site in Heilbronn, present the latest series of works with pictures on burlap, and also take a look at Anselm Reyle's earlier work.