Anselm Reyle (b. 1970)
Lot 159 IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY
A SELECTION OF WORKS FROM THE GOETZ COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT CHARITY PROJECTS

Anselm Reyle (b. 1970)

Harmony

Closed14 February 2013

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GBP 67,250

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Anselm Reyle (b. 1970)
Harmony
bronze and chrome optics with macassar wood veneer plinth
sculpture: 38 3/8 x 35 3/8 x 15¾in. (90 x 90 x 40cm.)
plinth: 38 3/8 x 42¾ x 18¼in. (97.5 x 108.5 x 46.5cm.)
Executed in 2006

Galerie Almine Rech, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.

Specialist note

'Reyle's work as a whole shows an interesting tendency towards formal dissolution here. There is often a special refinement in the way in which he goes almost to the limits of what can be considered an image at all, and empties the representational space while giving it extreme visual strength at the same time what Reyle is actually doing here is a consistent response to the conventionalization of, for example, the gestural formal language of erstwhile avant-gardes. The questionability of an image itself is always incorporated within an image.'
(J. Asthoff, quoted in 'The Truth of the Fade', Anselm Reyle, Skowej 2011, p. 46).