R.S.O.L.

Room for the Study Of Loneliness : space for contemporary art
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NL
R.S.O.L. Art Space Deventer brings current developments in contemporary art into focus with presentations of limited size but great significance. Away from commercial interests and other aspects involved in the art world, R.S.O.L. Art Space shows new work by Dutch and international artists and connects it to a current development and theme. Currents and movements taking place below and on the surface in contemporary art are made visible and accountable. Anyone who wants to know what is going on in contemporary art cannot miss the presentations of R.S.O.L.!
R.S.O.L. is a not-for-profit enterprise and is not supported by governments or funds, but is funded entirely from its own resources, revenues and donations. Due to the relocation to the current home, your support is needed twice as much. Be committed, support R.S.O.L. now!

A work of art is never finished

Come have a look in R.S.O.L. and tell what you have seen
Between looking and seeing there is a mental movement. Because one can look without seeing. Looking is an act, deliberate or not - but seeing is an experience, an event. What is perceived is also understood. So we look, but we also see.
 
If we now look at how a work of art works, we would see that its working breaks down towards the artist and towards the viewer. Both look at the artwork and both see what it means. But only the artist assumes the special responsibility for what form and structure the considered artwork takes. Here, the main question that comes into play is what the maker started the work from. The ‘why’ of it. The maker looks, sees and intervenes. For as long as it takes for the work to answer the questions that motivated it sufficiently.
The word ‘sufficiently’ indicates that there is a gradual difference in the measure to which a work meets the questions that motivated it. This is precisely why a work of art is really never ‘finished’. In the exhibition ‘Look & See’ in R.S.O.L. Deventer, this ‘unfinishedness’ of each work of art is central. Again and again, the work is revisited, because there are always sub-questions that need to be answered better, or differently.
 
Marijn van Kreij does this by revisiting existing works of art over and over again. He does this with a looseness that betrays how much his research is an ongoing process. There is no definite answer, but rather the question has to be posed again and again. Because there is more at stake than what has already been said. Bernice Nauta personifies the work of art as the ‘other’. This is what makes it possible for her to communicate with the work she does. In all the steps of the creation of the work, she reads back again and again what the work says to her. Nauta also personifies her artisthood as another ‘me’: because this allows her to question it and find out what artisthood really is and why she is an artist.
 
So come have a look in R.S.O.L.! And tell what you see.
with gratitude to Akzo Nobel Art Foundation info who completed the exhibition with a loan
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a curious experience...

A commited visitor recently wrote R.S.O.L. the following:
"I had a curious experience at the Van Hetenstraat, recently. I regularly pass it by on my bicycle, past your old hang-out. And one time, everything had already been demolished and removed, I had the curious impulse to knock on your door, at the corner of the building. As if you'd have a little underground dwelling there. And last night I dreamt about it again. That you were still there!
It's just me, I know, but it was so wonderful, your place. And strange: this dream."
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