{"id":3853,"date":"2022-01-24T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/?page_id=3853"},"modified":"2022-01-24T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T10:57:46","slug":"mariusz-rosiak-ronald-ruseler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/mariusz-rosiak-ronald-ruseler\/","title":{"rendered":"MARIUSZ ROSIAK – RONALD RUSELER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Pozn\u00e3n – Polen<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

RONALD RUSELER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not intend to look for precise generic definitions of Ronald Ruseler’s works. Let me just observe that his objects are situated somewhere on the border of painting and sculpture, Oil, acrylic, pigment, concrete, stone, branches, ceramic, photography – these are the materials of his works. It does not matter whether they come as classic easel painting done on a canvas stretched upon a loom, a miniature, a full-size sculpture lavishly coated with paint, a relief, or, finally, a case out of which you can draw seven tiny pictures – one for each day of the week. I don’t find it in any way disturbing that his objects may sometimes too closely resemble a souvenir of a journey to somewhere it is not quite clear where. Ronald Ruseler is a tramp by nature, He has been to nearly all the countries of the Old Continent, he has visited the USA, Turkey, Egypt, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. What he saw and experienced expresses itself in this particular form – not any other. This is how he wants it and this is how he must express it. I am impressed by this inner compulsion externalized so directly – only slightly courting the tradition of art, extremely emotional, at times erudite in an almost sophisticated manner. And, with all that, tender and sensitive – to time, place, nature, culture, archetype, horizon, myth and superstition…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, however, Ronald Ruseler prominently expresses his ties with nature, the earth. This acquires an abstract and sensual dimension. In his travels, he looks for inspiration, nourishment, for roots and reference points. He identifies and distances himself. In trying to describe the place where he is – he defines himself. He wants to be identified with the Aztecs, the Mayas, with Judas, Buddha, Christ, the pharaohs. He wants to know more because he wants to express time, the passing of it, nostalgia and oblivion, the simultaneous sense of past and future. In the magic of ancient signs, rituals and objects he discovers meanings which are very modern and personal… It may even occasionally seem that he is merely a medium through whom perennial human fears, longings and ideas are conveyed. In this sense his work can be read as one reads a calendar, a map, totems of war and peace, emblems of the old God carved on the skin of rocky mountain, an augury, a coin dating back to the times which even a glacier can’t remember, a dream which no one knows the beginning of or when it might end…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the art of both moderation and exuberance, reserve and gesture, humility and egocentrism. It may in a sense evoke the tradition of the old Dutch painting – open and sensitive to object: its meanings and the climates it carries…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Ma\u0142gorzata Wardenska<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mariusz Rosiak<\/em><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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RONALD RUSELER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nie zamierzam szuka\u0107 precyzyjnych definicji gatunkowych tego, co tworzy Ronald Ruseler. Wystarczy mi konstatacja, \u017ce jego obiekty sytuuj\u0105 si\u0119 gdzie\u015b na pograniczu malarstwa i rze\u017aby. Olej, akryl, pigment, beton, kamie\u0144, ga\u0142\u0119zie, ceramika, fotografia – to materia\u0142y. jakie znajdziemy w jego pracach. Oboj\u0119tnie, czy przybieraj\u0105 kszta\u0142t klasycznego obrazu sztalugowego malowanego na p\u0142\u00f3tnie naci\u0105gni\u0119tym na krosno, malarskiej miniatury, pe\u0142nowymiarowej formy rze\u017abiarskiej pokrytej suto patyn\u0105 farby, reliefu czy walizki, z kt\u00f3rej mo\u017cna wyci\u0105g- na\u0107 siedem male\u0144kich obrazk\u00f3w – ka\u017cdy inny na kolejny dzie\u0144 tygodnia. Nie przeszkadza mi przy tym nawet to, \u017ce niekiedy jego obiekty zbyt nadto zbli\u017caj\u0105 si\u0119 do pami\u0105tki z podr\u00f3\u017cy gdzie\u015b tam-cho\u0107 zawsze wiadomo, dok\u0105d. Ronald Ruseler ma bowiem natur\u0119 trampa. Przemierzy\u0142 prawie wszystkie kraje starego kontynentu, by\u0142 w USA, Turcji, Egipcie, Meksyku, Gwatemali i Hondurasie. To, co zobaczy\u0142 i prze\u017cy\u0142, wyra\u017ca po prostu w takiej a nie innej formie. Tak chce i tak musi. I imponuje mi ten przymus wewn\u0119trzny uzewn\u0119trzniany w spos\u00f3b tak bezpo\u015bredni, w niewielkim tylko stopniu kokietuj\u0105cy tradycj\u0119 sztuki, szalenie emocjonalny, niekiedy erudycyjny w spos\u00f3b niemal\u017ce wyraki- nowany, wreszcie wra\u017cliwy i czu\u0142y. Na czas, miejsce, przyrod\u0119, kultur\u0119, archetyp, horyzont, mit i zabobon…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ronald Ruseler przede wszystkim jednak eksponuje w swoich pracach sw\u00f3j zwi\u0105zek z natur\u0105, z ziemi\u0105. Ale uzyskuje to abstrakcyjny i sensualny wymiar. Podr\u00f3\u017cuj\u0105c szuka inspiracji, korzeni, po\u017cywki, punkt\u00f3w odniesienia. Identyfikuje si\u0119 i dystansuje. Podejmuj\u0105c pr\u00f3b\u0119 opisania miejsca, w kt\u00f3rym przebywa – okre\u015bla siebie. Chce by\u0107 to\u017csamy a Aztekami, Majami, Judaszem, Budd\u0105, Chrystusem, faraonami. Chce wiedzie\u0107 wi\u0119cej, bo chce wyrazi\u0107 czas i przemijanie, nostalgi\u0119 i zapomnienie, sens przesz\u0142o\u015bci i przysz\u0142o\u015bci zarazem. W magii pradawnych znak\u00f3w, rytua\u0142\u00f3w i przedmiot\u00f3w odnajduje znaczenia jak najbardziej wsp\u00f3\u0142czesne i.\u2026 osobiste Niekiedy mo\u017ce wydawa\u0107 si\u0119 nawet, \u017ce w swoich realizacjach artysta jest zaledwie medium, przez kt\u00f3re transmituj\u0105 odwieczne l\u0119ki, t\u0119sknoty i idee. W tym sensie jego prace mo\u017cna czyta\u0107 tak, jak czyta si\u0119 kalendarz, map\u0119, totemy wojny i pokoju, znaki starego Boga wyryte na sk\u00f3rze kamiennej g\u00f3ry, wr\u00f3\u017cb\u0119. monet\u0119 z czas\u00f3w, kt\u00f3rych nawet lodowiec ju\u017c nie pami\u0119ta czy sen, kt\u00f3ry nie wiadomo czy kiedykolwiek si\u0119 zacz\u0105\u0142 i kiedykolwiek si\u0119 sko\u0144czy…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sztuka umiaru i wylewno\u015bci zarazem, pow\u015bci\u0105gliwo\u015bci i gestu, pokory i egotyzmu. By\u0107 mo\u017ce ewokuj\u0105ca w pewnym sensie tradycj\u0119 starego, holenderskiego malarstwa -otwartego i czu\u0142ego na przedmiot, na wszystkie jego znaczenia i klimaty, jakie z sob\u0105 niesie…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zaaloverzicht<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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‘Open Veld IV’, Poznan, Polen 1993<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RONALD RUSELER I do not intend to look for precise generic definitions of Ronald Ruseler’s works. Let me just observe that his objects are situated somewhere on the border of painting and sculpture, Oil, acrylic, pigment, concrete, stone, branches, ceramic, photography – these are the materials of his works. It does not matter whether they come as classic easel painting… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3853","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3853\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronaldruseler.nl\/wp-tekst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}