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The consideration of an abstraction to its ultimate logical consequences can produce beauty in its purest form. For example a chess problem in the final stages, or, in the art of painting, the monochrome blues of Yves Klein. The photo of a K° particle that falls apart into two pions, made in a bell jar at the accelerator institute CERN, with which it proves its existence because is actually remains invisible, is a good example. Dargel ranks himself in this series with his treatment of the concept of interference, "the simultaneous action of two movements which either hamper or amplify each other, especially of vibrations or wave movements" (Van Dale). Everybody irritatedly recognises this phenomenon when a pirate begins to interfere with a radio station. In an unparalleled montage, Dargel combines the swell of turbulent water with a fluttering piece of plastic. From a few, barely visible image shreds, one could imagine that he is trying to represent a drought; The pure joy of movement - as an abstract element - is to be preferred.
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Erik Daams
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