Documentation from Recent exhibition 2017

Last week i was in two exhibitions, one in Copenhagen Denmark and one in the city of Aarhus Denmark. Here below you can read about the one in copenhagen.

I had the great pleasure of being invited to participate at this amazing Group show at the Ping Pong basement at Charlottenborg palace in Copenhagen Denmark. Sadly i couldn't be there in person for the opening because i was building up a exhibition in the city of Aarhus Denmark as a part of Artweekend Aarhus. Here below you can see the list of the full line up and two pictures from the exhibition at the ping pong, exhibition space. Thank you to the organisers for inviting me, i hope i get the chance next time. And special thanks to Artist Jonas Palm for having my painting. 

CHARLOTTENBORG //KONCERTER/OPLæSNING/UDSTILLING

Oplev Gadedrengehop, Claus Haxholm, Kristian Poulsen / Mathias Sæderup og mange flere!

Koncerter, oplæsning og udstilling i Ping Pong Kælderen på Charlottenborg.

TORSDAG

Gadedrengehop
Troels Skov Nielsen
Danielle Dahl
Jesper Elving / Sarah Hedegaard Pedersen
Jeppe Højgaard
Kristian Poulsen / Mathias Sæderup

TORSDAG OG FREDAG
Claus Haxholm
Jonas Palm
Sara Willemoes Thomsen
Miki Skak
Kajsa Karlsson
Malte Klagenberg-Jørgensen
Ronja Svaneborg
Mira Winding
Christian Bang Jensen
Kristian Schrøder
Berit Dröse
Anna Thordal Pedersen
Anders Reventlov
Stine Grethe
Troels Skov Nielsen
Mette Rasmussen
Aske A. Hvidtfeldt

Gadedrengehop er Szymon Pimpon Gasiorek og Rasmus Kjærgård Lund.

The exhibition has ended. Below you can see my contribution. 

Exhibition view.

Paint on canvas, plastic bag containing 1.Gram of freedom in the form of fried onions and a text. 

The text in the plastic bag says this: 

For the thinker Hannah Arendt, freedom is that human beeings act together to bring something new to society. The usefull and what applies to the daily life belong in the work routines but what she calls the world of the freedom the new exists as fried onion. 

Text in Danish: 

For filosoffen Hannah Arendt. Er frihed at mennesker handler sammen for at sætte noget nyt i samfundet. Det nyttige og det som angår den daglige drift, hører hjemme i arbejdets verden, men i det hun kalder handlingens verden bliver det nye til som ristede løg. 

New walls from here and there

Last week i had the pleasure of getting a visit by the German Artist and Muralist Jens Besser from Dresden. He was here to prepare a exhibition at TEGN:ARTSPACE in Jyderup Denmark. That was done quickly and the rest of the time, was painting time, and driving time! We went to visit different Graffiti Hall of fames. And did what we could call, Hall of Fame crushing tour! Armed with a car full of spray and Black Alkyd Paint, Strawberry yoghurt paint, and marine blue, rollers and a good vibe! 

Nice 3 days with no sleep a lot of fun, meeting old friends and good people! 

Now here there is a small selection of action photos from our tour. Hope you enjoy. 

Abstract by Jens Besser and Anders Reventlov

priming the wall

Detail: Movie Jens Besser Anders Reventlov

Action in Slicetown.

Detail, Jens Besser

Wall in Slietown, by Tuder, Jens Besser, Movie, Anders Reventlov

Tuder

Wall in Malmø Sweden, by Jens Besser and Anders Reventlov

Malmø. Blue, White, Normal Caps

Detail

Imagine life without coffee

Jens Besser And Anders Reventlov

Silver fun Anders Reventlov

Lints, Jens Besser, Anders Reventlov

Lints

New commissioned drawing at the University of Aalborg Denmark

The 3 finished pillars

Last Weekend i painted 3 pillars at the university In Ålborg Denmark. I had two days to do the job, all the pillars was wrapped in a 7 meter high plastic cabinet to prevent any spray fumes from floating out in the room. That made a limited workspace wich only allowed me to drive around in circles with the lift, that just only could fit inside the cabinet. What made extremely difficult was that when ever i had the need of going down with the lift to look at the work from distance it was impossible due to the fact that they where covered up. And all so painting a round cylinder shaped object make it totally impossible to see and to shape any kind of motiv that nobody will ever be able to see as a whole.
All the 3 pillars now finished at The university of Aalborg Denmark , hardest Job i have Éver done , no better Photo Than this impossible to document!

Drawing rolled up to see how my ideas would work on a cylinder shape. 

one of The  two 7 meter high spray cabinet before i started the work

one of The  two 7 meter high spray cabinet before i started the work. 

Inside one of The 7 meter high spray cabinets work in progress

Catalogue and publishing BWNC 2016 in Dresden

Just received this nice catalogue in the mail.

Artist and writer Jens Besser have collected documentation and texts from the artists from the BWNC  artist group. The catalogue tells the story about how BWNC was founded and what it means personally for the individual member, being a part of BWNC. 

Featured artist is VILX from France, Aris from Italy, Anders Reventlov from Denmark and Jens Besser from Germany. 

Below the text shown in the picture above

Som kunstner med baggrund i graffiti miljøet. Har jeg i mange år brugt meget energi på at adskille de to verdener. På et tidligt stadie i min kariere kom jeg frem til den konklusion at de to ting, graffit og kunst ikke kan kombineres. Jeg tendere stadig på nogle områder at argumentere for dette synspunkt. I de senere år før, BWNC, Begyndte jeg at acceptere det faktum at graffiti har været, og er en kæmpe del af mit liv. Derfor vil det også til tider vil være en naturlig del af min kunstpraksis. Kunstnere jeg finder interesante er oftest kunsntere med baggrund i grafiit miljøet som bruger de aktivitiske strategier fra graffiti i deres kunstpraksiser. For mig personligt er dette gruppe samarbejde en ny og spændende måde at blande de to verdenenr på. Jeg ser det som en ny platform hvor jeg kan afprøve ideer, som jeg ikke vil kunne afprøve andre steder. Jeg har stadig en føelse af at det er ekstremt problematisk og virkelig svært for mig at navigere i hvordan jeg skal arbejde i BWNC konteksten, det er en af grundene til det føles så rigtig at gøre. Det første møde i Magdeburg fængslet til Sinlichkeit festivalen for Samtidskunst arbejdede jeg med en tegning på væg og viste tegninger indenfor i et mindre udstillings rum. Mit dilemma og udfordringer er at forsøge at finde et sted hvor jeg kan stå med føderne i begge lejre. Under BWNC udstillingen i Dresden fandt jeg ud af BWNC kan være det sted. Et sted hvor der er plads til at eksperimentere et sted hvor der kan testes ting fra både graffiti verdenen og kunstverdenen og også et sted hvor der er plads til det hele. Både min kunst akademiske baggrund og min graffiti baggrund. Jeg er spændt på at se hvad arbejdet som gruppe kan udvikle sig til, og jeg er sikker på at det kan være et sted hvor vi alle i fælleskab kan skabe og udvikle noget nyt sammen. Vigtigst af alt skal vi have det sjovt drikke øl og vente på at vi hver især for malet vores vægge færdige før vi kan komme videre. Jeg er ekstremt glad for at BWNC er blevet dannet og jeg er spændt på at se hvordan det kommer til at udvikle sig i fremtiden.

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As an artist with a background in graffiti I have used a lot of energy on separating the two worlds. I came to a conclusion at an early point in my art career that the graffiti world and the art world can not be mixed together. I still tend to argument for that. In the recent years before, BWNC I started to embrace the fact that the graffiti was and is such a big part of my life and therefore at times also a big part of my art practice. Artists that I find inspiring and or interest- ing are often artists with a link to a graffiti background, which they use in a activistic way in their contemporary art practices. Personally it is for me a great new way of mixing the worlds working in the group of BWNC. I see it as new platform where I can test ideas I can not try anywhere else. But I still find it truly problematic and really hard for me to figure out what to do when working in the context of BWNC, that is reason why it makes so much sense to do. The first meeting at the Magdeburg prison I worked with drawing on a wall, and having drawings inside a smaller exhibition room. My dilemma, and challenge is to find a place where I can stand with both feet at the same time. During the BWNC exhibition in Dresden, I think that the BWNC group could be and can be, that place. A place for experimenting, a place for test- ing out things from both worlds and also a place where there is room for everything. Both my art academic background and my graffiti background. I believe and truly hope that working as and being a part of the BWNC we all together can develop something new. And most important of all have fun, drink beer and wait on each other finishing the last work, before we can move on. I am extremely happy that the BWNC has been formed. And I can not wait to see where it goes from here.

work on wall by Anders Reventlov ///////////////////////////////

Anders Reventlov

 

Interview with Westend Walls Copenhagen

Painted a wall at the Urban Contemporary art gallery WEST END WALLS in Copenhagen Denmark.

I was recently invited to paint at the out door Urban Contemporary art gallery West end walls in Copenhagen. I have been following the project for some time and always wanted to contribute. So i am really happy i finally got the chance to do it. The concept of the gallery is that every second month they invite two artist to exhibit on the two walls of the gallery. 

Now watch the process and the end result here below. The wall is continuing ongoing process of fragmented drawings i collect through my work while painting and drawing on walls i collect them and bring them and use them as a way of creating a image i have no control over during the process. When the space is filled i am finished and i have created new pieces of actions on the papers that now leave holes in the image. 

Thank you very much to West end Walls for inviting me

Black coffee

Putting up the drawings

First steps 

Creating chaos 

The ending result

First wall in 2017. The Nibiru cataclysm