Works

… As a child in the totally destroyed city of Düsseldorf, I discovered the magic of different materials. Lastingly, I liked and still like broken bricks with their diverse nuances of red and orange tones.

But also later the school chalks (preferably colored), used to the last crumb, have not let go of me until today.

What particularly fascinates me about it?

It is the poetry of the material, the colorfulness, the fine structure, as well as the rhythm of the differently broken pieces of chalk, which invite again and again to the creative process.

The creative and aesthetic possibilities are inexhaustible.

Reiner Seliger

Cross gelb V
Kreide weiss
Broken cut
Kreide GELB 30
BLAU
ABR weiß weiß
ABR 1
Kreide BLAU

Dr. Heidi Brunnschweiler writes in the 2020 catalog text “UP AND DOWN” among other things:

At some point Seliger discovered chalk as a material with a fascinating inner life. Chalk differs from bricks by a luminous colorfulness and a pulverized fine structure. Reliefs made of industrial chalk are a second important group of works in Seliger’s oeuvre. Although the waste materials supplied to him are arranged by color, they come from different production runs. They therefore have different color nuances and fine structures, which the artist uses specifically for his chalk reliefs.