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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BYLEX
18 till 25 april 2009
Vernissage saturday 18 april at 6pm

 

Kunstencentrum STUK
Naamsestraat 96
3000 Leuven
016 32 03 20

 

 

 

Once more anthropologist Filip De Boek and architect Koen Van Syngel co-operate after the acclaimed exhibition Kinshasa, the imaginary city. This time the focus of attention is on the work of Pume Bylex, a visual artist from Kinshasa. 
 
Bylex, artist name of Francis Pume, creates through drawings, costumes, furniture and maquettes an idiosyncratic universe.
This Congolese, both researcher and creator of concepts as an artist, performs a near scientific research on the invisible laws and processes of the world we live in. As an artist, Bylex is not interested in the banal Kinshasa reality but zooms in on that what is beyond the horizon of visible things.
First and foremost, The World According to Bylex shows us a movie Percer les Mystères de l'Invisible (Penetrate in the Mysteries of the Invisible). Not a linear story, but a kaleidoscope of videos in which Bylex creates a personal view of the world handling science, technique, religion...
For this exhibition Bylex also created a maquette of La cité touristique (The Tourist City). This Utopian city of which Bylex has been dreaming all his life, embodies his aiming for a better, universal world.

 

 

 

 

 
   
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