Karel Nel
There But Not There: The Significance of Absence
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Karel Nel
Fresh Widow: Duchamp's Obscurity is not Over-rated, Century, New York
2011
sprayed pigment on bonded fibre fabric
172 x 172 cm
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Karel Nel
There But Not There: The Significance of Absence
29 June - 19 August, 2011
Within the remarkable works assembled for this exhibition, Karel Nel grapples with the paradox of ‘being there’, while ‘not being there’; of being able to use the physical co-ordinates of place to project himself momentarily and imaginatively, into the mind-world of others who have extended the realm of mans’ consciousness. Through these images, Nel begins map some of the key sites where human thought has taken a quantum leap forward to reach new frontiers of understanding.
From Galileo's tomb in Florence to the 15th C Zen garden at Ryōan-ji in Kyoto and the Centre for Astro Physics in Paris to the works of Marcel Duchamp, Nel takes us on a personal journey of discovery.
