In that time, the Dutch Ger van Elk and Jan Dibbets are also important as European conceptual artists and Joseph Kosuth is a big name in New York City.
He has had exhibitions in, among others, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, together with the starting up Wim Delvoye and created projects with the Australian film - composer Peter Best.
This process also makes a connection with his older monumental photo - collage - work and his more recent pointillistic method.
Founding SMAK Director and Curator of Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992.Jan Hoet wanted ultimately to hang it on the museum left frontwall.
His well-known conceptual photo work 'Brabantdam 59, Downstairs-Upstairs' of 1975, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp M HKA, was loaned for a long term at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) and was selected for the Fridericianum during the Documenta 14 2017 in the German Kassel.
In his youth, Matthys was a gifted cyclist in the category of 'promises', together with André Dierickx, which later won famous classics such as the La Flèche Wallonne, but a very serious accident during the last years of his humanities studies in Ghent and a long rehabilitation, gave his life a strong new direction.