Dear followers of Rizoom, my name is Romar de Bonte. I am 23 years old and I live and work in Arnhem. I recently graduated from my bachelor in fine arts, which is called 'Base for Experiment, Art and Research'. .
My interest in theoretical philosophy is always a starting point for my work. Other themes that are often present are things such as archiving, language and the distribution of knowledge. Since I was 16 years old, I have had a strong desire to be able to understand literally everything. Somehow I was convinced that I could do it, to make sense of everything, and maybe solve every problem with it too. Looking back today, I think it's a silly desire or at least not very realistic. I have done research in theoretical philosphy, science, religion and what not. At some point, things got so complicated for me that I could not even understand why I cannot understand things.
But my artworks are not literally about this research. I'm not an academic, I'm just some guy trying to deal with the fact that everything is endlessly complicated. My artworks are a way of dealing with this inability to understand things in my day to day life.
I chose a very, very light grey for the logo this week. Sometimes my work is about boring 3 hour long monotone lectures. So, naturally I chose a very boring color. I thought the colorcode #f5f5f5 is nice too.
#takeover #rizoom #romardebonte #dutchartist #artez #baseforexperimentartandresearch #upcomingartist

Hi I'm BigBSTRD and I am doing the RIZOOM takeover for this week.

I have had a lot of experience with psychedelics. And I'm trying to find different ways to translate my trips to this world through photography, film, street art, music, and paintings.

The reason why I pick this colour is because I have been working with RGB and CMYK the past two years and I feel like I finally know these colours enough to create my own. And this is basically the first colour I made.

I just finished my second year at the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen. I will post some works from my assessment and some newer works everyday. If you want to see what I did already googlesearch: bigbstrd .  Anyway, I'm excited to show you my work. I hope you enjoy.

Sander Reijgers chooses ultramarine as his takeover color because it is one of his favorite colors and he likes to work with it.
“Sander is fascinated by the material and the act. Unstirred, he applies the layers of paint and is only limited by time (the paint has to dry interim) and by the shape the paint takes.
Reijgers patiently follows this process and is almost subject to his own work. The paint follows the act and the paintroller with which it is applied. Very organically, apparant monochrome compositions arise, which closely show their rich tints, because underneath the upper layer, countless other layers appear. They are partly visible because of the wholes the paintroller left on the canvas. Moreover, the structure of the canvas competely and autonomously arises out of the endless repetition of the act.
Bumps, paintlumps, everything is possible, as long as it arises from the act.
At the end of this proces, the image is independant of the creator and the material.
The final result seems to be a simple act which, on closer inspection, is far more layered and represents months of work.” Text by Jochem Rotteveel. #rizoom #sanderreijgers #artplatform #takeover

nieuw logo!

Rizoom is een open en experimentele verzamelplek voor beginnende kunstenaars in Nederland. Het platform staat open voor een ieder om zich aan te melden om zijn of haar werk voor een week op Rizoom te laten zien. De curator beslist wie er geschikt is om onderdeel te zijn van het netwerk. Leidend in de identiteit is de ‘Rizoom’ in de vorm van witte lijnen. Deze staan symbool voor het groeiende netwerk van kunstenaars. Het platform Rizoom is een blank canvas dat vrij ‘ingevuld’ wordt door de kunstenaars. Daarin stelt Rizoom zich ondergeschikt op. Dat betekent dat er in de uitingen geen herkenbare kleurencombinatie terugkomt. Het kleurenpalet zal net zo organisch groeien als het netwerk van kunstenaars. Het is een dynamisch proces waarbij iedere week een nieuwe kleur wordt toegevoegd door de kunstenaar zelf. Deze kleur wordt gebruikt om de kunstenaar aan te kondigen, en ook het logo transformeert wekelijks. Zo vertaalt het logo letterlijk het concept van Rizoom. Elke week wordt er een nieuw gedeelte aan de Rizoom toegevoegd door middel van een nieuwe witte lijn als aankondiging van de kunstenaar. De kunstenaar bepaalt zelf wat hij/zij met het gecreëerde podium doet, en ‘kleurt de cirkel in’ naar eigen voorkeur. Dit maakt de identiteit interactief. In iedere aankondiging verklaart de kunstenaar kort de gekozen kleur.

Het logo en concept zijn ontwikkelt door Karin Hilgenkamp.