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FILIP VERVAET - CEL CRABEELS - MARTIJN VOGELAERS

13 Eyl 2010
16 Eki 2010

Filip Vervaet (installations and sculptures), Cel Crabeels (video- and sound artist) and Martijn Vogelaers (graphic artist) work together intensely during their span at Lokaal 01. They create a safe haven in which each other's work becomes enriched and expanded. The melting together of the different visual languages results in a gesamtkunstwerk.

The platform is the space in which the presentation will take place: the situational, scenical aspect in which the visitor enters. They will build a construction which refers to "trajects" which man has decided on, to experience religious or natural phenomena, parks and museums. The total experience of the traject dominates and all separate elements (sculptures and objects that are optically, aurally, tactilely directed) serve that purpose.

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In the sculptures, installations and drawings of Filip Vervaet, natural and supernatural elements play an important part. Vervaets work often invokes dark emotions and sinister thoughts. The works accomplish an atmosphere of constant threat, despite the innocent or even frivolous impressions at first glance. In Vervaet's visual world, mystery, mythology and Disney World entertainment join hands.

Cel Crabeels uses audiovisual media to investigate the processes of identification and documentation, in which he accredits a central spot for the self critical distance. Crabeels' videos, audiovisual installations, documentary projects and photography show a preference to cloud the borders of reality and representation, fiction and documentary, private and public, critical observation and autobiography.

Martijn Vogelaers, as a graphic designer, is heavily influenced by the visual and audible esthetics of futurism and science fiction (from '50 till '85). He collects (movies, games, comics, record sleeves, music, fashion, ...) and processes this visual language in contemporary media (ao blow-up prints and video performances). He reserves a main focus for the threat of the unknown, and the tensions between man and machine, and nature and technology.