REFRACTION

Solo Exhibition, KUBE Gallery, Genk, 2025

26 Marcel Habetslaan, 3600, Genk, Belgium

10 July - 31 August 2025

This collection of Lionel Smit's paintings and bronze sculptures opens on the 10th of July, 2025.

Refraction – A Spectrum of Shifting Perspectives

Drawing inspiration from Claude Monet’s Haystacks, Refraction examines how light—and time—reshape what we see. In Monet’s series it wasn’t just the stacked hay; it was dawn and dusk, shadow and shimmer, decay and renewal. Here, a single oil-portrait becomes our “haystack”—repeated, refracted and re-imagined through shifting hues of vibrant colour.

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Each canvas is both distortion and revelation. Colour becomes filter and force—translating mood, cultural resonance and even our inner “weather.” As identity and perception grow ever more fluid—influenced by digital filters, cultural lenses and political currents—these portraits mirror our world’s fractured yet enduring quest for clarity.

Repetition here feels more ritual than redundant: it invites us to slow down, to discover nuance in every brushstroke. Just as Monet returned to the same haystack to reveal light’s transience, Refraction asks: How does one face transformation when the world around it shifts? What new truths emerge in chromatic excess or restraint? And ultimately, how many truths can coexist in a single gaze?

Refraction runs from 10 July 20245 at KUBE Art Gallery in Genk. For more information about the exhibition, contact Danny Weckx at danny@uitstalling.com.

Bend, 2025, oil on linen, 80x100cm

Filtered Presence, 2025, oil on linen, 80x100cm

Fractured Constant, 2025, oil & spraypaint on linen, 230x170cm

Hue Between, 2025, oil on linen, 120x120cm

Chromatic Shift, 2025, oil on linen, 100x120cm

Inflection #1, 2025, oil on canvas, 170x130cm

Inflection #2, 2025, oil on canvas, 170x130cm

Prism, 2025, oil on linen, 100x100cm

Vibrant Source, 2025, oil on linen, 150x150cm

Refraction #1, oil on canvas, 300x200cm

Refraction #2, oil on canvas, 300x200cm

Refraction #3, oil on canvas, 300x200cm

Spectrum Memory #1, 2025, oil on canvas, 60x60cm

Spectrum Memory #2, 2025, oil on canvas, 60x60cm

Spectrum Memory #3, 2025, oil on canvas, 60x60cm

Spectrum Memory #4, 2025, oil on canvas, 60x60cm

Silent Divide, 2025, oil on linen, 150x150cm

View Paintings

Primal Forge Mask #1, 2025, bronze, edition 1 of 6, 51 x 28 x 24cm

Primal Forge Mask #1, 2025, bronze, edition 2 of 6, 52 x 29 x 24cm

Primal Forge Mask #1, 2025, bronze, edition 3 of 6, 52 x 28 x 24cm

Primal Forge Mask #1, 2025, bronze, edition 4 of 6, 51 x 29 x 24cm

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Uitstalling Art Gallery / KUBE Gallery

Uitstalling Art Gallery / KUBE Gallery deals in a distinctive combination of painting, drawing, and sculpture. The locations for Uitstalling are chosen carefully in the east of Belgium as well as in Poznan, Poland. They are in perfect spots to experience a combination of contemporary art with an intriguing environment. They also offer guests the possibility to experience an extended private collection, including work from Pablo Picasso, Louise Bourgeois, William Kentridge, Gilbert & George, Julian Opie, and Damien Hirst.

For inquiries at Uitstalling Art Gallery / KUBE Gallery:

Danny Weckx
danny@uitstalling.com
+32 (0) 475 32 28 26
26 Marcel Habetslaan, 3600 Genk

Opening hours:
Mon – Fri, 10AM – 5PM | Sat, 1 - 5PM
Closed on Sunday, official holidays and during installation