Anselm Reyle: Ars Nova

Paintings by Anselm Reyle. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich.
Soft cover.
Text in German and English.
Essays by Bruce Hainley and Dominic Eichler.
Includes a list of illustrations, biography, exhibition history and a bibliography. 248 pp., with 200 six-color plates. 11-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches.

While Reyle is primarily a painter, this album is light in particular with which his paintings are concerned, both the light hitting pigment on canvas and, specifically, electric light, pale and acid, from the lamps and neon signs of the modern landscape. His found objects, almost readymades, function, therefore, like indices to his pictorial work. The phosphorescence of the paint, or that the paint gives to the objects, can be understood as a puzzle about a problematic medium, one whose solution here induces a new confidence and surprising expectations and wakes up the gaze.