Art Gallery O-68 focuses on artists who explore current themes surrounding identity, ecology and the self in interaction with the outside world. During ‘Slow Down Motion’ the gallery will present the work of Lenneke van der Goot and Rozemarijn Westerink. They both explore the scope of drawing in their own unique way. Excursions into spatiality, video and lithography are characteristic and will be seen in this exhibition, where mixed media works on paper, panels, epoxy works, ceramics and videos will be shown.
In response to the hectic pace of everyday life, Lenneke van der Goot (1979) wants to find a place of tranquility in her work, where all stimuli, thoughts and developments have come to a standstill. In large and small drawings, she suggests spaces that are accessible, but offer no guidance. Sometimes in black and white, sometimes colorful and vibrant, these spaces are populated by multi-faceted objects, precarious structures, stacks or patterns. These are carriers that represent ideas and processes, which reflect on themes such as chaos, structure and wandering. Layering and suggestions of light and depth are important tools. In the exhibition she will show, among other things, a new large work, in which nine lithographs have been compiled into a meters-long work. Lenneke van der Goot lives and works in Arnhem, she was educated at the HKU, won the EposPress Drawing Prize and the Pim Olivier Graphic Prize. She exhibits at home and abroad.
In her drawings and animated films, Rozemarijn Westerink (1982) investigates the way in which a personal experience or the experience of a specific moment can become universal and therefore recognizable for the viewer. She focuses on the landscape – the garden in particular – and the female body. She converts observations, memories, experiences and dreams into delicate pen drawings, sometimes so intense that the white paper has almost disappeared. In addition to work on paper and film, Westerink will show a new series of epoxy and ceramic works during the ‘Slow Down Motion’ exhibition. Here Westerink plays with elements from her animated films, which she then reconstructs into new works. This creates images that try to preserve a moving, and therefore transient, moment. Rozemarijn Westerink was trained at ArtEZ and St. Joost (MA), won the Buning Brongers Prize and recently the Open Call Zadkine, initiated by the Dutch Embassy in Paris.