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of former conservator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Brussels, Phil
Mertens, consists in having recognized this as a new current in contemporary
fine arts and to have convinced people at the Ministry of Education and
Culture to also reckognize it as such, which made it possible to have some
official manifestation on many university campusses in Belgium, Holland
and Paris.
Equally convinced of this new current was Wall Street lawyers office Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (specialized in intellectual property and international law) via their senior chancelor and partner director for Europe and the Middle, East Bavo Cool, who frequented the environment of David Rockefeller and the Museun of Modern Art of New York and who acquired one work for their collection. Through Bavo Cool the artist was offered to concede the monopoly on the totality of his work and future work to them, which the artist refused because he wanted to protect his creative and intellectural freedom, the more as, according to the law on intellectural property, contracts on the whole of the future work are not legal and even void. His refusal was not received with thanks and there was a 25 years lasting "cordon de silence" laid around the artist and his work as a result of his refusal. Ciudad
del hombre a.s.l.f. acting for the musseum of Lasoberana, where the works
are collected.
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