Anselm Reyle: Teenage Wasteland Cat. Kunstverein Heilbronn / Kunsthalle Vogelmann

Anselm Reyle is one of the internationally most renowned German artists of his generation. Born in Tü bingen, he grew up in Heilbronn where he exhibited his work at Kunsthalle Vogelmann. The list of places where he has exhibited reads like a who’ s who of the art world: from Kunsthalle Zurich to Palazzo Grassi in Venice, from Deichtorhallen Hamburg to museums in the United States. His collaborations, such as with Dior for an exclusive series of handbags, are legendary. Anselm Reyle mixes styles, colors, and materials in a rather intriguing way, working with car paint, PVC and mirror film, spray paint, LED lights, concrete, and clay. Found objects as source material tend to play a prominent role in his work; these may be elements from works by other artists, as well as everyday objects, architecture, or design objects. This approach to his own work as reflection, appropriation, rephrasing and reformulation is thus made visible and addressed time and again. The viewers get caught up in the surprising beat of opposing formal as well as material samplings, in which the entire pictorial repertoire of modern abstract image development finds itself.

Matthia Lö bke (born 1963) is artistic director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn, is curator and publishes monographic catalogs, among others to Carina Brandes, Natalie Czech, Katja Davar, Olaf Metzel, Carl Ostendarp, Michael Venzia, Silke Wagner. She did her doctorate on Dan Flavin and did the office in Cologne for Donald Judd until his death. Anselm Reyle was born in Tü bingen in 1970. His father was a doctor, his mother a painter, and both espoused the political ideals of the ’ 68 generation. The young artist grew up with his younger brother Georg in Heilbronn. About his upbringing he said: » I always tried to negate the good taste I was taught.« Reyle, who changed schools ten times in ten years and founded a punk band during his school years, managed to graduate from Highschool with difficulty; he broke off an apprenticeship as a landscape gardener after two years. He tha studied painting at the Academy in Karlsruhe. Larissa Kikol (born 1986, lives in Cologne and Marseille) is an independent art critic and art historian. She writes for Kunstforum International, Die Zeit, art, Spiegel Onlin, and also publishes in artist catalogues, museum publications and for gallery exhibitions.