 In 1988, he taught French literature at the University of Udine in Italy.Upon his return to Belgium, he made the acquaintance of Bram Bogart in relation to whom he wrote a number of articles.In Paris in 1990 he met a number of artists of the "New New Painting" group and developed a theoretical account of their artistic approach, set out in a work published by the publishing house "Nouvelles éditions françaises".