Frederik Vercruysse: Panoramic
Between August 8-31, Spazio Nobile presents Panoramic, a solo show dedicated to Belgian photographer Frederik Vercruysse, hosted in a modernist 1970s villa in Knokke Le Zoute.
Curated by Spazio Nobile Gallery, myself and Gian Giuseppe Simeone, Panoramic is a tribute to the enduring precision and quiet power of Frederik Vercruysse’s gaze, framed within a space marked for erasure, yet momentarily transformed into a site of reflection and vision. Staged in a modernist 1970s villa in Knokke Le Zoute— where Vlassak-Verhulst will soon build a unique project —the exhibition becomes a metaphor for transience and memory.
Panoramic is both a title and a state of mind—a mode of looking that extends beyond the immediate, capturing space, time, and atmosphere in a single, contemplative gesture. In this retrospective celebrating 15 years of art photography by Frederik Vercruysse, Panoramic becomes a reflection on precise yet poetic sensibility, minimal yet layered, rooted in architectural order and soft and subtle light.
In contemporary art, the panoramic is not merely a format—it is a philosophy. It encompasses the totality of a moment, offering not only a wide-angle view but a sense of continuity and emotional resonance. Vercruysse’s work inhabits this space between design and reverie, structure and silence, distilling reality into visual compositions that echo the restrained beauty of natural and man-made environments.
Photography, in this context, is an act of framing what often escapes notice. Vercruysse’s lens captures more than buildings or interiors; it seizes atmospheres—coastal light, fading shadows, surfaces brushed by time. The nearby North Sea, just a short walk from the villa, permeates this visual language: flat horizons, grey-blue hues, wind-shaped lines, and a constant negotiation between permanence and change. The sea’s presence, though often off-frame, is felt as a vast, invisible actor shaping the mood and material memory of the images.
This private space becomes for a brief moment a vessel of memory and vision. The house itself, like many coastal structures, stands on the edge—between past and future, shelter and disappearance, preservation and transformation. In collaboration with Vlassak-Verhulst, Allaert Staal and Wever & Ducré/Wästberg, Panoramic evokes the horizon as a metaphor for artistic exploration and cultural identity, anchored in the Belgian affinity for craftsmanship, visual clarity, and the subtle interplay between man-made space and elemental force.
A Guided Tour Through the Photographer’s Lens : Exhibition Views of the Main Room highlighting Infinity with a curated selection of art photographs by Frederik Vercruysse within his Solo Show, Panoramic, 15 Years of Art Photography
8-31.8.2025
Villa Spazio Nobile
Koningin Fabiolalaan 20, Knokke Le Zoute, Belgium
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From Thursday until Sunday, 14-20.00
& by appointment
14-15-16-17 August
21-22-23-24 August
28-29-30-31 August
Sunday Finissage on 31.8.2025, 14-18.00
RSVP: [email protected], +32 475 53 19 88
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