Exhibition facts
Van Tuesday 2 - 5 June
11h - 16h
Parking LABIOMISTA
Marcel Habetslaan 50
3600 GENK
Please note, visiting is only possible with respect to the Covid-19 measures
The Unicorn
Two intimately intertwined llamas lie in front of a multicolored painting. They carry a transparent horn. They are unicorns. Outside, a conjuring voice rearranges existing mathematical formulas. An invention is being prepared. Something else is in the works.
The unicorn is a dream animal that breaks through the limits of its own existence. It is a mythical symbol, from child to adolescence, that leads to a new world. It is the cathedral in the head, a narrowing of the mind that leads to a new platform. This narrowing also determines the invention.
The unicorn symbolizes new discoveries. The horns are transparent because of what happens off the radar.
At the back, the painting shows the creative process of rearranging, mixing, and transforming. Something is being invented, the camelid calls for new inventions. Lama Winter is coming. She's here now. Her message is enriching our library. Her history will be our future. She is guiding us, artists and scientists, towards new knowledge, and towards different ways of sharing it with the world.
The Unicorn; Forever – MECC, 2014 Taxidermic llamas, glass horns, 104 x 115 x 57 cm, Painting (no title), 2019, Mixed media on canvas (chalk, coffee, Indian powders, egg yolk, pencil, feathers, glass, llama wool) © Koen Vanmechelen
* the animals died a natural death
Llamas are the real unicorns
