I would like to briefly introduce the context in which you started making videos. You collaborated with the Antwerp ICC’s Continental Studio to make your first works. Yes, whoever wanted to make video art went to Flor Bex. All this cost nothing. Were you free to direct your works? I’m referring in particular to the …
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Alfred Laoureux in front of Jacques Lennep’s video Lennep présente Alfred Laoureux collectionneur (1977) and amid his collection of suits and shoes in the exhibition Jacques Lennep expose Alfred Laoureux – Collectionneur, atrium, Aachen, January 27 – March 5, 1978 © Jacques Lennep, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
The funding initiative “Forschung in Museen” (“Research in Museums”) launched by the Volkswagen Foundation came at precisely the right time for the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst. Appointed to the post of director in 2009, Brigitte Franzen was keen to once again establish the museum as a place of research and she systematically considered the possibilities the Ludwig Forum offered in this respect
Lennep présente – Alfred Laoureux, Collectionneur; Les 36 costumes d’Alfred Laoureux, video, b&w, sound, 30:36 min, V_NG_73
Vive la peinture!, 1974; La peinture moderne, 1975; Le tableau, 1975, b&w, sound, 14 min, V_NG_131_I_(a,b)