Anders Reventlov

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Brasil Rio De Janeiro 2016

A small update from Rio De Janeiro the Marvellous city. I have not been here in 5 years and it is with great pleasure i am coming back. I went here with a lot of expectations on how much it have changed and if everything truly is so bad and chaotic as we now here from time to time in the news in the west. Last time i was here, i remember seeing a live televison broadcast showing a police helicopter circling around over Rio De Janeiro, it had been hit by a smaller missile launched from one of the favelas, and was now searching for place to crash without doing the most damage. It crashed and 4 police officers tragically died. That month there was reported 35 murders on police officers in Rio De Janeiro. 5 years ago that event was not published outside of Brasil. Nobody heard about really.

Now 5 years later i come here and as then and now people tell me it so dangerous and more violent than EVER here, i hear the same phrases as then: dont take the bus, dont go there, dont go out at night, dont do that dont do this you will get killed. And yes it can be dangerous here. Maybe especially because there are so much fear. Only one month to the olympics and every body especially the news are talking constantly about how dangerous it is and will be, going here.

Now I am here, and it feels pretty much the same. except the Brasilian people are talking about a worse quality of life, all prices are going up on everything the salaries are going down. The state of Rio is bankrupt and have no Money to pay the police or firefighters.

Chaos and fear! What will happen after the olympics? No one knows.

When walking around taking the bus, painting. I feel a relaxing vibe around the city, like a breeze of calm have set in over Rio De Janeiro. Everything seems relaxed in a way. Like a waiting position. But still I feel that everything is pretty much the same, here as it was 5 years ago. Maybe i am wrong.One thing is for sure i feel as safe/unsafe here as usual, the life continues people are still getting robbed, people are still going to the beach people are still getting killed, the bus drivers still drives like madmen. And people are still talking about how bad everything is. I dont know what to make of it. I am still enjoying the freedom to paint where ever you want to. And the positive vibe you meet everywhere.

I am looking forward to follow the development.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Do what feels wrong! Podcast interview

Second part of my talk with The undergang Armchair hope you enjoy

Here is the teaser for this episode:

Hello friends, welcome back to the second part of our talk with the scintillating Anders Reventlov. We bring it all home here in the second half, and this talk is chock full of pertinent information for young artists, all artists really. There is a lot of worthwhile conversation about some pretty burning issues in the art world today and issues it might be important to think about as practicing artists. We are going to hear about the exhibition space he started, the thoughts behind (it’s not what you think) and about the slow evolution of his own thoughts on his work. It can be glacial, but the rewards are sweet. You’ll also hear about the journey of context, the books which changed everything, and why you have to do what feels wrong. Let’s do this.

Follow link:

http://www.undergang.net/content/do-what-feels-wrong-ft-anders-reventlov-part-2-82

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The undergang armchair. Podcast Interview

I had the great pleasure and honor of talking to The Undergang armchair the best podcast out there! Hope you listen it is all in english. About my work life as an artist. Enjoy.

Link to the episode and the text from The undergang Armchair:

http://www.undergang.net/content/its-your-own-fault-ft-anders-reventlov-81

Greetings gang, here we are back again. In the midst of some upheaval and expansion, we bring you part one of our stellar talk with Anders Reventlov. He is the perfect guest for times of change, and he’s the first one ever we’ve met through the show itself. He is an unusually engaged fellow (and we meet a lot of engaged people) and since meeting him we’ve found he is a talented artist as well. He has a really interesting story, he works harder than just about anybody we’ve met, and he seems to retain an unflaggingly positive attitude throughout. He’s a teacher, he runs and independent art space, he’s a father, an artist, he does just about everything. But we’ll let him tell you the rest of the story, such as growing up painting Warhammer figures, getting harassed in the conservative graffiti world and being traumatized by art teachers. Ando also has a little announcement about the show. Enjoy!

Sunday, May 22, 2016

New Wall In Denmark

With the help of 48 Fresh Kids i made a new permanent work

at a private school in Denmark.

Based on drawings and ideas made by the kids, I worked it all together to one big drawing. By using the paper drawings, directly om the wall i simply continued

what the kids from paper to wall.

After the whole work was considered done, all kids could get a piece of the drawing in the wall. Now with a mixture, of my drawing and their original motive. Below some pictures from the process and the finished wall. The wall was made to mark the 150 th annaversery of N.Koch school. A huge thanks goes to all the kids involved and Bettina Hee Rømer.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

BWNC Exhibition

Just came back from Dresden Germany. After a really productive week in the name of art.

I was invited to participate in the exhibition

Beer Waiting and Needle Caps, curated by Jens Besser. I had the pleasure of exhibiting together with Aris (IT) Vilx (Fr) and Jens Besser (De)

On the announced opening day we all started to work in the exhibition space "Hole of fame". The idea was that we should work and make the works develop during a week. No plans but to see what might happen. This week we produced work outside of exhibitions space, a ,screen print edition of unique works involving each artist and two artis talks held by Jens Besser and I, about our artistic pratice.

This is the first exhibition/project of many others to come in the none defined BWNC format. It will in the future develop and become a travelling project in the forms of murals, public artworks, talks the exhibition will be travelling first to the countries of the four artists involved. stay tuned for more.

The following pictures shows a little peak of some of the activities that went down in Dresden. Artists present for this BWNC meeting was Aris (IT) Jens Besser (De) Anders Reventlov (Dk)