Stolen Fantasy

Berlin

Anselm Reyle and Franz West have put together a conglomerate of objects for Stolen Fantasy, the current exhibition at the Schinkel Pavillon. They swapped unfinished works, which had been stored in their ateliers and categorized as not serviceable junk. Once the item would arrive in the atelier of the other, this would be modified – painted over, deformed or embellished by assembling found material on it – and finally sent back. Out of this dialogue a new artistic language arised, which questions the greater concept of art.

Anselm Reyle was born in Tübingen, Germany in 1970. He currently lives and works in Berlin. Reyle’s stripe paintings are instantly recognizable as responses to the formalist vocabulary of Clement Greenberg that defined the art of the 1950s and 1960s. Reyle references iconic abstractionists ranging from Kenneth Noland to Otto Freundlich. Reyle’s „objets-trouvés,“ a reference to his multi-media installations that include sculpture and found neon lights, are in constant dialogue about the role of modernism today.

Franz West lives and works in Vienna, where he was born in 1947. West began his career in mid-1960s Vienna when a local movement called Actionism was in full swing. West’s earliest sculptures, performances, and collages were a reaction to this movement, in which artists engaged in displays of radical public behavior and physical endurance meant to shake up art-world passivity.

Schinkel Pavillon

March 24th – April 22nd, 2012
Oberwallstraße 1
10117 Berlin
Germany

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