The great merit of former conserrvator 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 manifestations on all 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) and its director for Europe and the Middle East who frequented the environment of David Rockefeller and the Museun of Modern Art of New York and who acquired one work for their collection.
The artist refused their offer to concede them the monopoly on the totality of his work and future work, 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" around the artist and his work as a  result of his refusal.

I have, during my fortuitous encounter with the artist, together with  my wife Cristiane, and during the next encounters that I had with the artist in his studio, been able to gain his confidence as a person and a collector and it is a pleasure for me today to  present here to other interested collectors for their consideration, various of his works, part of my collection, that, without any doubt, form the successfull top of contemporary art.*

The artist was invited by the Minister of Education and Culture of Andorra to have an exhibition at the Ministry.
He was also invited by Andorra´s Ambassador at Genève at the occasion of  establishing  the necessary conditions to sell part of this collection