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VANHAERENTS ART COLLECTION

Art and film since the 1970s: Warhol, Naumann, and subsequent trends

Collector:

Walter Vanhaerents

Address:

Rue Anneessens 29

1000 Brussels

Belgium

Tel +32 2 5115077

www.vanhaerentsartcollection.com

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Walter Vanhaerents’s family has been in the construction business for eighty years, so naturally he went into the business too. But as a young man he studied film. He was so impressed with Andy Warhol’s five-hour-long film Sleep that he wanted to see other works by the Pop icon. No surprise then, that Warhol, along with Bruce Naumann, is one of the anchors of the Vanhaerents Art Collection. But the reactions of subsequent generations of artists to these seminal figures interests Vanhaerents as well, whose collection also features works ranging from Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, and Ugo Rondinone, to the provocative, Neo-Pop Art, businessminded artist Takashi Murakami. The collection is housed in a charmingly remodeled 1926 industrial building on the outskirts of the hip fashion and gallery district of Dansaert. Starting in 2007, new exhibitions have been shown biannually on three floors.