Press

ARTO (2002)

Dictionnaire Biographique:

... Ses compositions sont le plus souvent marquées par la relation Homme et Environnement ...

Art in Belgium (1999)

Paul Piron:

... is a philosopher as much as an artist. He is a seeker whom, during his surch for blessing and harmony, opens himself to the surrounding world to collect his impressions ...

Ugo Verbeke (1996)

Poet and artcritic Ugo Verbeke:

... His paintings as much as his emotional life are connected to nature. They are full of psychological sensitiviness ... Themes and subjects that concern us all ...

Den Brabo (1996)

Social journalist Coen Cauwenberghs:

... On the question, put during "Antwerpen '93": Can art save the world?, the answer is, by looking at the works of artist and gallerist Paul Van Dessel, YES ...

Gazet van Antwerpen (1996)

Social journalist Erik Verstraete:

... Love, some sensuality and passion, eternal values in art, are submerged by the artist into a universal message of warmth and beauty ... Art as this can be an opposite to the alienation of life and art for many decades in many contemperary art ...

Gazet van Antwerpen (1989)

Social journalist Piet Schepens:

... Not aesthetics for aesthetics' sake, nor art for the happy few ... a personal philosophy which states the developpement of all human talents ...

KASK Antwerpen (1989)

Artphilosopher John Baert:

... While looking round you, you must have noticed: diversity of subject, colour and form. This is unheard, because where is the utterly praised unity of inspiration? Patience, this work must be studied subcutaneously ... This work is of such a nature that it moves through subcutaneous constants within the author himself. What here appears to be simple is however composed with great accuracy and with a defined artistic philosophy. By that the common suddenly becomes uncommon ...

When we have become surprised, worlds are revealed where things express perishing and coming to existence ... Each work reveals a world of looking, beholding, connecting things with visible and invisible eyes. These drawings and paintings observe you from their unlimited center ... not in a confronting manner but by taking you to the inner beholding of ones self ...

Therefore you keep looking at these works. In their best moments they make you watch and search far beyond the visible. What appears to be far away is however very near. It is the necessary harmony between matter and spirit, the transtition from death to life ...