This summer, from July 20 to August 25, '24, Mel Lucy Bruneel will exhibit at Vlaamsekaai 35, at VONN Global Art. In this exhibition, she will showcase works from her young oeuvre, and she will also celebrate her 10th year of practicing art. Although her earlier works will be displayed, the focus will largely be on our beautiful city of Antwerp.

In recent years, her interest has focused on photographing the city as well as collecting old visual material, such as postcards, newspaper clippings, anecdotes… She translates these images and information into the paintings that many people love: pink sunshine illuminating the quays to dark nights where one sees the pink Elvis Presley car that was based at the former Docks hotel (now Antwerp Harbour Hotel). The latter is an image around which Mel Lucy Bruneel has already created several paintings.

We Antwerpians are nostalgic beings, and that is exactly what Mel Lucy Bruneel wants to tap into. She paints images of the past and present to provide a romantic nostalgic view. As we have noticed several times, this creates warm conversations among viewers, "about the good old days," but by also painting contemporary images, she wants to show that we might be living in a good old time now as well, even if we don't realize it. The message is therefore: seize the day, here in Antwerp.