„Anarchy in Construction“ by Thomas Bayrle

"Anarchy in Construction" by Thomas Bayrle, a pioneer of German Pop Art, Exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Centre Pompidou Paris, Palais de Tokyo Paris, MoMA PS1 NYC, New Museum NYC
Anarchy in Construction by Artist Thomas Bayrle

Contemporary graphic work on paper

Artist – Thomas Bayrle (* 7. November 1937 Berlin), living in frankfurt

Title – „Anarchy in Construction“

Object – Color serigraph on light cardboard. 66.5 x 58.5 cm (67 x 59cm). Signed, dated 1971, titled and numbered. Ex. 19/100 framed, edge of sheet minimal unfresh

Provenience – via auction

Exhibitions – Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Centre Pompidou Paris, Palais de Tokyo Paris, MoMA PS1 NYC, New Museum NYC, Museum Ludwig Köln, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Lenbachhaus München, Secession, Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt (MMK)

Thomas Bayrle is a german painter, graphic and visual artist, son of Artist Alf Bayrle


Being a pioneer of German Pop Art, Thomas Bayrle is best known for his „super-forms“, large images composed of iterations of smaller cell-like images. Humorous, satirical, and often political, his paintings, sculptures, and digital images are commentaries on the systems of control and domination in a rapidly globalizing economy, via allegorical references to traffic patterns, mass production, and the generic designs of popular goods such as wrappers and wallpaper.