Anders Reventlov

Description

The entirely black space, which the Danish artist Anders Reventlov covers with white spray paint, becomes a dense, all-over field of signs, traces and overlays. Somewhere between Action Painting, Writing and Tagging, a visual topography emerges that is experienced physically rather than read. Anders Reventlov, who has developed his practice from within graffiti culture since the 1990s and is now regarded as a key figure in the Scandinavian scene, understands writing as an immediate act. His work consistently moves between drawing and signature, between individual gesture and collective visual language. Despite his academic training, he is deeply rooted in the logic of writing and continually expands upon it towards abstract compositions. At the heart of his work lies the idea of ‘writing as action’: the handwritten trace as evidence of presence in an increasingly digitalised world. The lines, marks and clusters in space follow Reventlov’s method of ‘traces of actions’, a kind of cartographic collage of collected and transformed movements.