Hugo Heyrman, bekend onder zijn artiestennaam Dr. Hugo Heyrman, is een vooraanstaand Belgisch schilder, filmmaker en nieuwe-mediakunstenaar. In de jaren zestig vervult Heyrman een pioniersrol wanneer hij samen met Panamarenko performances, acties en conceptuele kunst introduceert. Vandaag omvat Heyrmans kunstpraktijk een breed scala aan artistieke praktijken, zoals schilder-, teken- en beeldhouwkunst, fotografie, video, film en digitale media. In zijn oeuvre onderzoekt hij het ambigue, raadselachtige en psychologische. Zijn beeldend werk kenmerkt zich als figuratief en abstract, verweven met postmoderne elementen. Publicatie bij de tentoonstelling in Galerie De Zwarte Panter, Antwerpen, van 16 september tot 5 november 2023.--- Artist Dr. Hugo Heyrman positions himself at a remarkable level within the art world. When we assess his oeuvre spanning over half a century, its groundbreaking role is more than obvious. In the Swinging Sixties, along with Panamarenko, he introduced happenings, actions, Pop Art, and conceptual art. The early seventies saw him setting the tone with video art and the first digital experiments in the realm of art. Even in his street-life painting palette from the earliest days we can identify the cinematic zoom function an entire generation of Flemish painters emulated in the nineties. Throughout recent decades, Heyrman has been expressing himself in various media. But more than anything, there is unity in his artistic growth, a consistency that attests to an inspired visual thinking. His work consistently highlights the underlying reality of the zeitgeist. As a painter, he imparts a cinematic radiance to bodily stances and gestures in the urban landscape, making the extraordinary visible in the ordinary. From a kaleidoscopic perspective, he manages to bring together autonomy and commitment as the tangible building blocks of the ?not yet? visible. This publication showcases paintings, works on paper, studies and details, each speaking for themselves in Heyrman?s unique visual language. This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition The Porous Boundaries of Reality, at Galerie De Zwarte Panter, Antwerp, 16 September - 5 November 2023. With text contributions by Dr. Hugo Heyrman and Joannes Késenne.