Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- German artist Anselm Reyle evokes candy wrap. Most of his new paintings and sculptures at Gagosian Gallery in New York’s Chelsea district shine and glisten.

On view are 19 works, the bulk of them done since the artist joined the mega-dealer’s stable in 2007.

Until then, Reyle was known for his stripe paintings and crumpled foil in Plexiglas boxes. The expanded production budget has pushed the artist (as well as his prices) into the realm of the monumental, though the disco party feel of the earlier works is still palpable.

Reyle’s monochromes come in orange, magenta, blue and purple. Silver-sprayed hay bales are scattered around. Most surfaces are either reflective or metallic.

What I initially took for a large pastel-blue painting, turned out to be a 23-foot-long metal panel he had found on the street in East Germany. Across the gallery, a relief that resembled Richard Serra’s Cor-ten steel turned out to be made of plastic (with light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, shining through).

Junk appears frequently in his works, but it’s usually transformed into something iridescent. Some sculptures on pedestals have been purposefully imprinted by Reyle’s feet and hands. A small African trinket from a flea market is cast as a 7-foot-tall abstract bronze with the polished purple exterior of a new race car.

Prices range from 10,000 euros to 1.1 million euros ($14,947 to $1.6 million). “Monochrome Age” runs through Oct. 24 at 555 W. 24th St. Information: +1-212-741-1111; http://www.gagosian.com