PRESS RELEASE

Cel Crabeels (°1958, Antwerp) examines the concept of “emptiness” as significant environment generating multiple interpretations. His work unfolds spatially, providing the visitor with visual images reduced to their essential qualities, linked with the physical experience of space. ‘Landing’ (2006) consists of video and sound recordings Crabeels made during a stay in Iceland. The desolate volcanic landscapes and geysers take on abstract and aesthetic qualities while, at the same time, appearing unearthly, like some sort of unformed lunar craters. With a minimum of intervention, in this series of images combined with sound fragments and spatial elaboration, Crabeels provides a profound experience. ‘Landing’, initially exhibited in the ‘Panoramic’ exhibition in BE-PART (Waregem), is currently on show at a new exhibition at the Dagmar De Pooter Gallery.  Eva Wittocx    (translation Dutch to English: Michael Laird)