"Use of the most varied found items, stripped of their original function, altered visually and placed in new context characterizes the garishly colorful, glowing works of German artist Anselm Reyle. He utilizes a wide variety of materials for his works, which are mostly installations, paintings, or sculpture: foils from shop window decorations, colorpastes or car paint, remains of neon tubes and useless waste, construction, and electrical scrap civilization’s urban trash. Among Reyle's best-known works are his foil and stripe paintings: they too are created form the leftovers of consumer society and symbolize urbanity and industrial change, with plays a central role in Reyle's works. He sticks foil on, sprays paint, has neon tubes glow or covers plush seat cushions with crumpled cellophane. We hear echoes iof a Marcel Duchamp readymade, the borderline with design is fluid.

The artist is especially inspired by European Modernism and by American Pop Art. Reyle hits the nerve of the time: in postmodernist fashion he deliberately uses characteristic elements of different movements: that of Abstract Expressionism first and foremost, of American Minimal Art and German Concrete Art; Russian Constructivism, too, provides inspiration. He makes use of these styles to translate their achievements into the present day, to take them further, and to challenge them. So Reyle is postmodern pop star of contemporary art, without being a pure champion of Pop art."

Constanze Malissa, in: Kunst der Gegenwart. Albertina modern, Albertina, Albertina klosterneuburg, S. 582